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Types of alignment strategy&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;bsls&lowbar;alignment&period;h&gt;`

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enum Strategy;
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== Members

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| Name| Description
| `BSLS&lowbar;MAXIMUM` 
| Align memory block based on the most restrictive alignment requirements of the host platform&period;
| `BSLS&lowbar;NATURAL` 
| Align memory block on an address that is the largest power of two that evenly divides the size (in bytes) of the block&period;
| `BSLS&lowbar;BYTEALIGNED` 
| Align memory block based on the least restrictive alignment requirements of the host platform (1&hyphen;byte aligned)&period;
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