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Types of alignment strategy to allocate memory.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslma_bufferallocator.h>`

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enum AlignmentStrategy;
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== Members

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| Name| Description
| `MAXIMUM_ALIGNMENT` 
| Return memory on a maximally‐aligned boundary (`bsls::AlignmentUtil::BSLS_MAX_ALIGNMENT`), as required for ANSI standard allocators.
| `NATURAL_ALIGNMENT` 
| Return memory aligned on the largest power of two dividing the requested size (up to `bsls::AlignmentUtil::BSLS_MAX_ALIGNMENT`).
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