Re: aligned attribute

[Tim Prince <timothyprince@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maurizio Vitale wrote:
> Thanks. Now to add to my confusion, on my system __alignof(long double) 
> returns 16, which I presume means that all allocation, static, dynamic 
> and automatic for long double objects are 16 byte aligned.

This is a reasonable choice, that long doubles would be aligned for good 
performance, unless the alignment is over-ridden by a packed or reduced 
alignment specification.