Bill Moseley writes: > Is there anything in autoconf that will help determine this required > alignment size?
The PostgreSQL source tree contains a macro to do that. You call PGAC_CHECK_ALIGNOF(type) and it defines ALIGNOF_TYPE to the required alignment. You can find it in http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/config/c-compiler.m4 -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]