C++11 introduced the alignof operator [0] along with the alignas specifier [1], which can be useful when doing placement-new style allocation like this. [0]: h

C++11 introduced the alignof operator [0] along with the alignas specifier [1], which can be useful when doing placement-new style allocation like this. [0]: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/alignof http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/alignof [1]: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/alignas http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/alignas