Hello Bob, Andrew, all, * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Sat, May 12, 2007 at 03:42:04AM CEST: > On Sat, 12 May 2007, Andrew Makhorin wrote: > > > >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:
Its alignment could be much larger than needed, no? If you have only a finite set of data types to check, then you can use AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF on (a union of) the types. Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
