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		secondcoming 7 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ChkTag: x86 Memory Safety In C++ you can force that with alignas(), I would imagine other low level languages offer something similar. If you're using a custom allocator you'd have to enfore it yourself which should be fine since you have full control. https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/alignas.html

sparkie 7 days ago [–]

C23 also has `alignas` and `alignof` (`_Alignas`/`_Alignof` in C11 with the lowercase as macros in stdalign.h), and also provides `aligned_alloc` and `free_aligned_size` in stdlib.

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