On Feb 19, 2014, at 3:11 PM, Chandler Carruth <[email protected]> wrote:

> Attached in my patch to do this minimum of work to get std::max_align_t. It's 
> dirt simple, if deeply unfortunate in the specific definition in provides on 
> many platforms. I think it is no worse than the current behavior.
> 
> If we want to support a host which is neither Clang nor GCC and does not 
> provide a ::max_align_t, we can do so incrementally atop this I think.

LGTM.

— Marshall


> 
> -Chandler
> 
> 
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Chandler Carruth <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> FYI, i'm preparing patches to this effect.
> 
> 
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 11:13 PM, 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 Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Howard Hinnant <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> On Feb 10, 2014, at 2:25 PM, Howard Hinnant <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >> It seems like the old behavior follows the standard more closely. If Len
> >> == 17, then _any_ c++ object with size no greater than Len includes
> >> objects of size 16 and some objects of size 16 maybe have an alignment
> >> requirement of 16.
> >
> > Ok, I'm convinced, thanks.
> 
> I've enclosed a slightly updated patch.  I've added float as Kal suggested, 
> but haven't added uintmax_t because of not wanting to couple <cstddef> to 
> <cstddint>.  I have not modified the behavior, thanks to Kal.
> 
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 1>::value = 1
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 2>::value = 2
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 3>::value = 2
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 4>::value = 4
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 5>::value = 4
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 6>::value = 4
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 7>::value = 4
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 8>::value = 8
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 9>::value = 8
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 10>::value = 8
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 11>::value = 8
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 12>::value = 8
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 13>::value = 8
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 14>::value = 8
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 15>::value = 8
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 16>::value = 16
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 17>::value = 16
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 18>::value = 16
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 19>::value = 16
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 20>::value = 16
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 21>::value = 16
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 22>::value = 16
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 23>::value = 16
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 24>::value = 16
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 25>::value = 16
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 26>::value = 16
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 27>::value = 16
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 28>::value = 16
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 29>::value = 16
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 30>::value = 16
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 31>::value = 16
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 32>::value = 16
> std::__find_max_align<std::__all_types, 33>::value = 16
> ...
> 
> Howard
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