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gmacros: Don’t use __alignof__ in G_ALIGNOF implementation

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It has different semantics from _Alignof and our G_STRUCT_OFFSET
fallback. See the comments in the diff for details.

Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1055
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@@ -1870,11 +1870,16 @@
* G_ALIGNOF
* @a: a type-name
*
* Return the minimum alignment required by the platform ABI for values of the given
* Return the minimal alignment required by the platform ABI for values of the given
* type. The address of a variable or struct member of the given type must always be
* a multiple of this alignment. For example, most platforms require int variables
* to be aligned at a 4-byte boundary, so `G_ALIGNOF (int)` is 4 on most platforms.
*
* Note this is not necessarily the same as the value returned by GCC’s
* `__alignof__` operator, which returns the preferred alignment for a type.
* The preferred alignment may be a stricter alignment than the minimal
* alignment.
*
* Since: 2.60
*/