Re: [boost] Re: Several useful utility classes uploaded

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-10-27 19:28:43

At 10:25 PM 10/25/01 -0400, Douglas Gregor wrote:
 >On Thursday 25 October 2001 05:36, you wrote:
 >> > The best solution, I think, given that the problem cannot be
 >> > completely solved in current ISO C++, would be a language change that
 >> > added a standardised alignment_of() and #pragma align that worked on
 >> > members of structures and in templated code.
 >>
 >> I haven't tought about the core issues involved.
 >
 >This is actually a relatively common extension. GCC, Microsoft, and
 >EDG-based
 >compilers support alignof or __alignof__ (same semantics as sizeof).

It is one of the language extensions on the C++ committee's Evolution 
Working Group list for possible standardization in the next revision of the 
standard.

--Beman