alignment-of-class.md

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alignment_of Class

Gets alignment of the specified type. This struct is implemented in terms of alignof. Use alignof directly when you simply need to query an alignment value. Use alignment_of when you need an integral constant, for example when doing tag dispatch.

Syntax

template <class Ty>
struct alignment_of;

Parameters

Ty
The type to query.

Remarks

The type query holds the value of the alignment of the type Ty.

Requirements

Header: <type_traits>

Namespace: std

See also

<type_traits>
aligned_storage Class