On 31/01/2012 18:47, Marco Leise wrote: <snip>
pragma(msg, real.sizeof);
Prints 10u for me (2.057, Win32).
Prints the expected platform alignment for me: DMD64 / GDC64: 16LU DMD32: 12LU
That isn't alignment, that's padding built into the type. I assume you're testing on Linux. I've heard before that long double/real is 12 bytes under Linux because it includes 2 bytes of padding. I don't know why Linux does it that way, but there you go.
Stewart.
