/* Determine alignment of types. Copyright (C) 2003-2004, 2006, 2009-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */ #ifndef _ALIGNOF_H #define _ALIGNOF_H #include /* Determine the alignment of a structure slot (field) of a given type, at compile time. Note that the result depends on the ABI. Note: The result cannot be used as a value for an 'enum' constant, due to bugs in HP-UX 10.20 cc and AIX 3.2.5 xlc. */ #if defined __cplusplus template struct alignof_helper { char __slot1; type __slot2; }; # define alignof_slot(type) offsetof (alignof_helper, __slot2) #else # define alignof_slot(type) offsetof (struct { char __slot1; type __slot2; }, __slot2) #endif /* Determine the good alignment of a object of the given type at compile time. Note that this is not necessarily the same as alignof_slot(type). For example, with GNU C on x86 platforms: alignof_type(double) = 8, but - when -malign-double is not specified: alignof_slot(double) = 4, - when -malign-double is specified: alignof_slot(double) = 8. Note: The result cannot be used as a value for an 'enum' constant, due to bugs in HP-UX 10.20 cc and AIX 3.2.5 xlc. */ #if defined __GNUC__ # define alignof_type __alignof__ #else # define alignof_type alignof_slot #endif /* alignof is an alias for alignof_slot semantics, since that's what most callers need. Note: The result cannot be used as a value for an 'enum' constant, due to bugs in HP-UX 10.20 cc and AIX 3.2.5 xlc. */ #define alignof alignof_slot #endif /* _ALIGNOF_H */