This ignores the possibility that more than one alignment-sensitive field might be needed. Requiring that they all be up front, potentially degrading readability flies in the face of the design principles of the language. This kind foot-gun in other languages is why many people choose Go.
On Tue, 2018-08-14 at 06:49 +0000, Jakob Borg wrote: > It’s a bug in the library if it uses 64 bit atomic operations without > ensuring 64 bit alignment. Putting the alignment-required field at > the top of the struct is the traditional method. > > //jb -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
