Re: alignment boundary

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 12 May 2007, Andrew Makhorin wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am wondering, if there is a way to determine the alignment boundary,
> in bytes, i.e. the boundary suitable to allocate data of any type on a
> particular platform. An example would be highly appreciated.

One approach is to use malloc() to allocate some memory and see what 
the alignment of the returned address is:

 "The malloc() function returns a pointer to a block of at least size
  bytes suitably aligned for any use."

Bob
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