On Saturday, 7 August 2021 at 15:21:01 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
On Saturday, 7 August 2021 at 14:34:49 UTC, Tejas wrote:
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For the array as a whole to be aligned, not only must the
spacing between the elements respect the alignment, but
starting address of the array itself must be a multiple of the
alignment. So it is correct to check that `x.ptr%ALIGNMENT ==
0`.
The issue with `align` attributes being ignored for stack
variables is apparently a known bug, first reported in 2016:
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16098
The issue with `align` attributes being ignored by `new` is
also a known bug, and was also first reported in 2016:
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16508
Oh wow, and here I thought I was being smart :(
So, how can we work around this without assembly language magic?
I'm illiterate at assembly.
