foreign-type-alignment

foreign-type-alignment

Syntax

Function: foreign-type-alignment type ⇒ alignment

Arguments and Values

type

A foreign type.

alignment

An integer.

Description

The function foreign-type-alignment returns the alignment of type in bytes.

Examples

  CFFI> (foreign-type-alignment :char)
  ⇒ 1
  CFFI> (foreign-type-alignment :short)
  ⇒ 2
  CFFI> (foreign-type-alignment :int)
  ⇒ 4

  (defcstruct foo
    (a :char))
   
  CFFI> (foreign-type-alignment '(:struct foo))
  ⇒ 1

See Also

foreign-type-size