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See: Placement new issue
Simple question, would this solve the align problem?
union
{
char real_array[sizeof(T)*size];
T fake_array[size];
};
Yes, that should solve the alignment problem. There’s no need to make
fake_arrayan array though. Just a single member of typeTis enough.This is actually a rather widely used trick for forcing specific alignment on some array.
As a pedantic side-note: anonymous unions only exist in C++, but not in C.