[Aldor-l] alignof

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Bill Page <bill.page at newsynthesis.org> wrote:
> On 3/21/08, Pippijn van Steenhoven wrote:
>  >
>  >  I keep wondering what to do with this:
>  >
>  >  # define alignof(T)             (sizeof(struct {char a; T b;}) - sizeof(T))

I suspect that on most platformd of interest to Aldor, GCC is
running, therefore GCC's documented extension __alignof__
is a better option.

FWIW, the next version of C++ will have a similar standard
facility (inspired largely from existing experience with major
C and C++ compilers).