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### 2241. `<cstdalign>` and `#define` of `alignof`

Section: 17.14 [support.runtime] Status: Resolved Submitter: Richard Smith Opened: 2013-02-14 Last modified: 2020-09-06

Priority: 2

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Discussion:

According to 17.14 [support.runtime] p2:

> The contents of these headers are the same as the Standard C library headers [..], `<stdalign.h>`, [..]

Since our base C standard is C99, which doesn't have a `<stdalign.h>`, the reference to a non-existing C header is irritating (In this context `<stdalign.h>` doesn't refer to the deprecated C++ header `<stdalign.h>` described in 99 [depr.c.headers]).

Furthermore, it would be also important that it doesn not define a macro named `alignof`, which C11 also defines in this header.

Currently we only have the following guarantee as part of 17.14 [support.runtime] p7:

> The header `<cstdalign>` and the header `<stdalign.h>` shall not define a macro named `alignas`.

It is unclear what the better strategy is: Striking the reference to `<stdalign.h>` in 17.14 [support.runtime] p2 or upgrading to C11 as new base C standard.

[2014-02-15 Issaquah]

STL: related to earlier issue on C4, 2201, and now we get a C11 header
JY: find _Alignof as keyword C11 FDIS has four defines in stdalign.h
AM: need paper for C11 as base library we should really do that
STL: really need vendor input
STL: don't think we need to do anything right now not P1
AM: any objections to downscale to P2 (no objections)

[2016-03 Jacksonville]

Walter: this is on track to go away if we adopt Clark's paper to rebase to C11
Room: tentatively resolved; revisit after C11 paper: P0063

[2016-03 Oulu]

P0063 was adopted.

Change status to Tentatively Resolved

Proposed resolution: