On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 06:00:49 +0400, Walter Bright
<newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/attribute.html#align
Over time, it has become clear to me that there are only two useful
alignments:
align // set to whatever the C ABI alignment is
align(1) // pack everything in, no alignment padding
I think any other alignments should be deprecated. Note that with
align(1), any alignment is achievable simply by adding in byte fields
where desired.
On some platforms it is desired to align struct Vec { float[4] data; } on
16 bytes. I don't recall why now, but I know for sure we do that for all
platforms (other than PC maybe). I guess that has something to do with
vector operations.
Bikeshed note: how about align(C) to be consistent with both align(1) and
extern(C)?