Re: [boost] alignment problem in proposed any alternative

christopher diggins wrote:

Anyway it turns out we can guarantee alignment by simply using a char buffer. According to 3.9/2 the following automatically has no alignment problems:

template<int buffer_size> struct any { char buffer[buffer_size];

Here buffer will only meet the alignment requirements of char. IIUC, char[buffer_size] generates properly aligned storage for something of size buffer_size only when used in a new expression: char * buffer = new char[buffer_size]; Anyway, perhaps you could into boost::aligned_storage for your purposes. Regards, João Abecasis