On Feb 16, 2014, at 2:13 AM, Richard Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> This seems to be going in the wrong direction.
> 
> * max_align_t needs to be in <stddef.h> as well as in <cstddef>
> * <stddef.h> is provided by the compiler, not by the standard library
> * max_align_t is de facto part of the platform's ABI. It's not enough to get 
> the alignment right, you also need to get the size and mangled name of the 
> type right (and possibly other things too).
> 
> IMO, the right thing to do here is to add a definition to max_align_t to 
> Clang's lib/Headers/stddef.h, and add a using declaration to libc++'s cstddef 
> to pull it into namespace std.
> 

On Feb 9, 2014, at 2:50 PM, Howard Hinnant <[email protected]> wrote:

> Features:
> 
> 1. If <__config> defines _LIBCPP_C_HAS_MAX_ALIGN_T, then max_align_t is 
> grabbed from the global namespace / <stddef.h>.  Currently no platform in 
> <__config> defines _LIBCPP_C_HAS_MAX_ALIGN_T.  C11 introduces max_align_t in 
> <stddef.h>.  I expect that eventually all platforms will migrate to this 
> option.
> 

Howard


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