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boost/align/detail/align.hpp

/*
(c) 2014-2016 Glen Joseph Fernandes
<glenjofe -at- gmail.com>

Distributed under the Boost Software
License, Version 1.0.
http://boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt
*/
#ifndef BOOST_ALIGN_DETAIL_ALIGN_HPP
#define BOOST_ALIGN_DETAIL_ALIGN_HPP

#include <boost/align/detail/is_alignment.hpp>
#include <boost/assert.hpp>

namespace boost {
namespace alignment {

inline void* align(std::size_t alignment, std::size_t size,
    void*& ptr, std::size_t& space)
{
    BOOST_ASSERT(detail::is_alignment(alignment));
    if (size <= space) {
        char* p = (char*)(((std::size_t)ptr + alignment - 1) &
            ~(alignment - 1));
        std::size_t n = space - (p - static_cast<char*>(ptr));
        if (size <= n) {
            ptr = p;
            space = n;
            return p;
        }
    }
    return 0;
}

} /* .alignment */
} /* .boost */

#endif