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reply Robert Atkinson <Robert.Atkinson gmail.com> writes:
Is there anyway to align a struct, for example to 16 byte memory locations?

I tried:
align(16)
struct x
{
        // blah
}

but x.alignof always returns 4.
May 02 2005
parent "Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 yahoo.com> writes:
"Robert Atkinson" <Robert.Atkinson gmail.com> wrote in message 
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 Is there anyway to align a struct, for example to 16 byte memory 
 locations?

 I tried:
 align(16)
 struct x
 {
        // blah
 }

 but x.alignof always returns 4.



Nothing over align(4) seems to work.  Might be a bug (or a limitation of the 
compiler?).
May 03 2005