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.TH align 3 "4 January 2009" "Straylight/Edgeware" "mLib utilities library"
.SH NAME
align \- alignment utilities
.\" @ALIGN
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B "#include <mLib/align.h>"

.BI "size_t ALIGN(size_t " sz ");"
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B ALIGN
macro returns the value of its argument
.I sz
rounded up to the next multiple of the size of
.BR "union align" ,
which is defined as a union containing a selection of built-in types.
The intent is to write fairly portable memory allocators, which must
return correctly-aligned memory.
.IR array .
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR mLib (3).
.SH "AUTHOR"
Mark Wooding, <mdw@distorted.org.uk>