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Return the alignment of the specified `address`. Returns 0 if `address` is 0. Note that the returned value might be larger than `BSLS_MAX_ALIGNMENT`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bsls_alignmentutil.h>`

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static
std::size_t
pointerAlignment(void const* address);
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