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8912421c 1/* Determine alignment of types.
f0007cad 2 Copyright (C) 2003-2004, 2006, 2009-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
7 any later version.
8
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
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14 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
15 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
16 Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
17
18#ifndef _ALIGNOF_H
19#define _ALIGNOF_H
20
21#include <stddef.h>
22
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23/* alignof_slot (TYPE)
24 Determine the alignment of a structure slot (field) of a given type,
8912421c 25 at compile time. Note that the result depends on the ABI.
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26 This is the same as alignof (TYPE) and _Alignof (TYPE), defined in
27 <stdalign.h> if __alignof_is_defined is 1.
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28 Note: The result cannot be used as a value for an 'enum' constant,
29 due to bugs in HP-UX 10.20 cc and AIX 3.2.5 xlc. */
30#if defined __cplusplus
31 template <class type> struct alignof_helper { char __slot1; type __slot2; };
32# define alignof_slot(type) offsetof (alignof_helper<type>, __slot2)
33#else
34# define alignof_slot(type) offsetof (struct { char __slot1; type __slot2; }, __slot2)
35#endif
36
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37/* alignof_type (TYPE)
38 Determine the good alignment of an object of the given type at compile time.
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39 Note that this is not necessarily the same as alignof_slot(type).
40 For example, with GNU C on x86 platforms: alignof_type(double) = 8, but
41 - when -malign-double is not specified: alignof_slot(double) = 4,
42 - when -malign-double is specified: alignof_slot(double) = 8.
43 Note: The result cannot be used as a value for an 'enum' constant,
44 due to bugs in HP-UX 10.20 cc and AIX 3.2.5 xlc. */
45#if defined __GNUC__
46# define alignof_type __alignof__
47#else
48# define alignof_type alignof_slot
49#endif
50
8912421c 51#endif /* _ALIGNOF_H */