On Tuesday, 29 October 2013 at 12:31:00 UTC, Artur Skawina wrote:
On 10/29/13 06:36, growler wrote:
My understanding of that is S is not affected by the
alignment of its fields.
To clarify, I mean the *alignment* of S is not affected by the
alignment of its fields.
The alignment of an object must be at least as large as the max
of the alignment
of all fields that it contains, obviously. The object layout
never changes; using
a smaller alignment for the parent object would make it
impossible to guarantee the
specified field alignment.
artur
You're right, it would be nonsensical otherwise.
