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6.44 Determining the Alignment of Functions, Types or Variables ΒΆ

The keyword __alignof__ determines the alignment requirement of a function, object, or a type, or the minimum alignment usually required by a type. Its syntax is just like sizeof and C11 _Alignof.

For example, if the target machine requires a double value to be aligned on an 8-byte boundary, then __alignof__ (double) is 8. This is true on many RISC machines. On more traditional machine designs, __alignof__ (double) is 4 or even 2.

Some machines never actually require alignment; they allow references to any data type even at an odd address. For these machines, __alignof__ reports the smallest alignment that GCC gives the data type, usually as mandated by the target ABI.

If the operand of __alignof__ is an lvalue rather than a type, its value is the required alignment for its type, taking into account any minimum alignment specified by attribute aligned (see Common Variable Attributes). For example, after this declaration: 

struct foo { int x; char y; } foo1;
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the value of __alignof__ (foo1.y) is 1, even though its actual alignment is probably 2 or 4, the same as __alignof__ (int). It is an error to ask for the alignment of an incomplete type other than void.

If the operand of the __alignof__ expression is a function, the expression evaluates to the alignment of the function which may be specified by attribute aligned (see Common Function Attributes).

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