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Chapter 2. Boost.Align

Chapter 2. Boost.Align

Glen Fernandes

Copyright © 2014 Glen Fernandes

Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.

Introduction

This library provides an alignment function, aligned allocation and deallocation functions, an aligned allocator, an aligned allocator adaptor, an aligned deleter, a type trait to query alignment requirements, and a function to verify pointer value alignment.

Table 2.1. The Boost.Align Library

Component	Description
`align`	Pointer alignment function
`aligned_alloc`, `aligned_free`	Aligned allocation and deallocation functions
`aligned_allocator`	Alignment aware allocator
`aligned_allocator_adaptor`	Alignment aware allocator adaptor
`aligned_delete`	Deleter for constructed objects allocated with the alignment function
`alignment_of`	Type trait to query alignment requirement of a type at compile time
`is_aligned`	Pointer alignment verification function

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