[libc][malloc] Align blocks to max_align_t. (#100279) Since there are two offsets from block start to usable area, this ensures that the usable area is maximally aligned, so long as the offset type size is no less than half the max alignment. This is true on at least typical 32-bit and 64-bit targets. Previously, there was a roughly 50-50 chance a given block's usable area would be misaligned for a malloc on a 32-bit system. The half that were misaligned would require at least one block of additional padding, costing 12 bytes. With this change, the only cost is 0-4 bytes at the beginning of the heap to reach an initial 8-byte alignment. See #98096
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