Re: standard memory allocator alignment issue...

On 12 May, 23:08, Eric Sosman <Eric.Sos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Chris Thomasson wrote:
> >
> > You got it:
> > [...]
> > I am trying to come up with somewhat "****table" hack that can attempt
to
> > determine maximum alignment for integral types across a number of
> > different compilers.
>
>      The difficulties are in enumerating all the integer types
> (easy in C90, hard in C99)...

Isn't it actually impossible to enumerate all the integer
types in C99 ?  The standard allows extended integer
types so you have no way of knowing whether on some
platform you have a "hideously long int" which has
stricter alignment requirements than every standard
type.