Re: FW: AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF maximum ??

2013-12-04 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/20/2013 08:37 AM, 'Chris Hall' wrote: I hope I am in the right place, if not please direct me ! Just now noticing this mail, and that no one ever seemed to reply. I have found: AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF (type, [includes = ‘AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT’]) which is quite lovely, as far as it

Re: FW: AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF maximum ??

2013-12-04 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2013-12-04 10:43 -0700, Eric Blake wrote: On 06/20/2013 08:37 AM, 'Chris Hall' wrote: I hope I am in the right place, if not please direct me ! Just now noticing this mail, and that no one ever seemed to reply. It appears that this question was double posted, as there were followups

RE: FW: AC_CHECK_ALIGNOF maximum ??

2013-12-04 Thread 'Chris Hall'
Eric Blake wrote (on 04-Dec-2013 at 17:43 +): What are you expecting to do with the biggest alignment, anyways? Arrange for memory to be allocated such that, just like malloc(), one can know that it is suitably aligned for all eventualities. The most you can portably do is determine the