[PATCH 2/2] Use C11 _Alignas on scratch_buffer internal buffer

[Florian Weimer]

On 09/18/2017 06:10 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> This patch could cause problems on non-GCC platforms. According to the 
> Gnulib documentation 
> <https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/stdalign_002eh.html>, 
> Sun C 5.11 supports _Alignas but not on auto variables. In practice, the 
> unpatched scratch_buffer.h uses 1024-byte buffers everywhere,

Are you sure?  sizeof (max_align_t) is 48 on i386, after all.

Thanks,
Florian