Chapter 2. Boost.Align

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, a macro to hint pointer alignment, 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
`assume_aligned`	Macro for static pointer alignment hint
`is_aligned`	Pointer alignment verification function