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In article <DANIELV.95Aug10093924@crt0.crt>,
Daniel Villeneuve <danielv@crt0.crt> wrote:
>
> The required alignment of that type is also of interest, when writing a
> specialized malloc() portably.  gcc's __alignof__ extension may be used
> as a model/example.

While it doesn't generalize to variables, here's a simple and, as far
as I know, portable alignof() macro:

#define alignof(type) (sizeof(struct{type _x; char _y;}) - sizeof(type))

_x and _y may get caught somewhere in the user's code, but this has
worked for me quite well in practice.
-- 
	-Colin