c++ tool for visualising memory alignment?

Question

Is there a tool, maybe a plugin for visual Studio or so, that visualizes for me the memoryalignment of my classes and structs?

thx!

Answer 1

You might be interested in using Cruncher#.

Reference: original Maciej Sinilo blog post about Cruncher#.

Answer 2

While it doesn't apply to windows, the Linux tool PaHole, part of the 'dwarves' package on common Linux distributions, provides structure and class alignement information based on the DWARF2 debug information in ELF files.