Re: Is this correct code for alignment?
In article <1152464739.974877.189850@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>, sat
<prad1234@hotmail.com> wrote:
Is this legal and correct code for getting alignment of T in platform
independent way?
template<typename T> struct TAlignment {
char c ;
T t;
static int alignVal() { return (sizeof(TAlignment) -
sizeof(T)); };
};
Works in visual C++ 2005 express edition.
e.g.
TAlignment<int>::alignVal(); // returns 4
typedef char Char10[10];
TAlignment<Char10>::alignVal(); // returns 1
The code is legal but it computes the offset of T in the struct
assuming no tail padding.
see boost traits_type library it has two template metafunctions
to get alignment_of a type and a pod of a given size aligned with
a given alignment.
template <class T> struct alignment_of
{
static const std::size_t value = ...;
};
template <std::size_t Size,std::size_t Align>
struct aligned_storage
{
typedef unspecified_POD_type type;
};
not exact quotes but the idea...
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