How to determine if memory is aligned?

Question

I am new to optimizing code with SSE/SSE2 instructions and until now I have not gotten very far. To my knowledge a common SSE-optimized function would look like this:

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Answer 1

How about:

void *mem = malloc(1024+15); 
void *ptr =( (*(char*)mem) - (*(char *)mem % 16) );