--- Douglas Gregor <gregod@[...].edu>  wrote:

Hi Doug,

>  If you could figure out what alignment value you're trying to get a type for
>  it would help greatly. One way you could do it would be to replace the
>  static assertion lines with something that will halt the compile and give
>  back the Align value in an error message, e.g.,

Thanks a lot for your message!

>  // somewhere
>  template<bool DontPrintIt, std::size_t Align> struct maybe_print_align {
>  typedef void type; }
>  template<std::size_t Align> struct maybe_print_align<false, Align> {};
>  
>  // instead of the static asserts:
>  typedef typename maybe_print_align<(found >= Align), Align>::type foobar;
>  
>  Note that when those static asserts fail, it means that you aren't getting
>  back a type with the right alignment.

That's a cool trick and it works great. I've expanded your templates
to also print the value of the "found" constant:

template<bool DontPrintIt, std::size_t Align, std::size_t Found>  struct
maybe_print_align { typedef void type; };
template<std::size_t Align, std::size_t Found>  struct maybe_print_align<false,
Align, Found>  {};

typedef typename maybe_print_align<(found > = Align), Align, found>::type
foobar;

Here is the error:

/var/tmp/mac/boost/boost/type_traits/type_with_alignment.hpp:120:
error: no type named `type' in `boost::maybe_print_align<false, 8, 4> '

The full error message is here:

http://cci.lbl.gov/~rwgk/tmp/mac_os_10_alignment_problem

FYI: In the meantime we've found out that the PowerPC doesn't have
strict alignment requirements (but unaligned access may be associated
with performance penalties). After a discussion with David Abrahams
I've disabled the static assertions in type_with_alignment.hpp:

#if !(defined(__APPLE__) && defined(__MACH__) && defined(__GNUC__))
    BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT(found > = Align);
    BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT(found % Align == 0);
#endif

Ralf


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