align-of

Returns the alignment in bytes of a foreign type.

fli

align-of type-name => alignment

type-name⇩

A foreign type whose alignment is to be determined.

alignment

The alignment of the foreign type type-name in bytes.

The function align-of returns the alignment in bytes of the foreign language type named by type-name.

The following example shows types with various alignments.

(fli:align-of :char)
=>
1
 
(fli:align-of :int)
=> 
4
 
(fli:align-of :double)
=>
8
 
(fli:align-of :pointer)
=>
4