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AlignOf

Synopsis

     function AlignOf (var x): Integer;

Description

Returns the alignment of a type or variable in bytes.

Conforming to

AlignOf is a GNU Pascal extension.

Example

     program AlignOfDemo;
     var
       a: Integer;
       b: array [1 .. 8] of Char;
     begin
       WriteLn (AlignOf (a));  { Alignment of `Integer', e.g. 4 bytes. }
       WriteLn (AlignOf (Integer));  { The same. }
       WriteLn (AlignOf (b));  { Alignment of `Char'; usually 1 byte. }
     end.

Although the array is bigger than a single char, it is accessed char by char, so there usually is no need to align it on a 4 byte boundary or such. (This may be false on some platforms.)

See also

SizeOf, BitSizeOf, TypeOf.