No more explanation, but a link. If one does not know what algnment is he most

probably should/will not use this class.

[[Imported from SVN: r5452]]

common/alignment.hh

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ namespace Dune
   /**
    * @file
    * @brief This file implements a template class to determine alignment
-   * requirements at compile time.
+   * requirements of types at compile time.
    * @author Markus Blatt
    */
 
@@ -90,6 +90,8 @@ namespace Dune
   /**
    * @brief Calculates the alignment requirement of a type.
    *
+   * @see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_structure_alignment
+   *
    * This will be a safe value and not an optimal one.
    * If TR1 is available it falls back to std::alignment_of.
    */