From 4235a256400c0f7394d163d61ddf2799d08d3327 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: shassani <shassani@soe.ucsc.edu>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 16:00:31 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Adds ForceStringAlignment to flatbuffers. (#4828)

ForceStringAlignment is useful for memory aligning string fields in flatbuffers.
---
 include/flatbuffers/flatbuffers.h | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/flatbuffers/flatbuffers.h b/include/flatbuffers/flatbuffers.h
index bfcc7d7d5..cb5feaa4f 100644
--- a/include/flatbuffers/flatbuffers.h
+++ b/include/flatbuffers/flatbuffers.h
@@ -1206,6 +1206,11 @@ class FlatBufferBuilder {
   void ForceVectorAlignment(size_t len, size_t elemsize, size_t alignment) {
     PreAlign(len * elemsize, alignment);
   }
+  
+  // Similar to ForceVectorAlignment but for String fields.
+  void ForceStringAlignment(size_t len, size_t alignment) {
+    PreAlign((len + 1) * sizeof(char), alignment);
+  }
 
   /// @endcond