Yet another ALIGN idea. (some

[Ray Butterworth]

> Since an alignment constant doesn't necessarily work, how about an
> alignmentof(object) operator, analagous to sizeof()? At least that'll work
> on all architectures that have alignments based on multiples.

An "alignof(type)" operator is already required by X3J11 (although
they don't seem to have realized this yet) in order to implement
their va_arg(ap,type) macro.