On Wednesday, 18 May 2016 at 01:46:37 UTC, tsbockman wrote:
Shouldn't a union type always have an `alignof` at least as
great as the `alignof` for its largest member?
Apparently not; it's actually DMD and LDC that are wrong here:
http://bugzilla.gdcproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226
On Wednesday, 18 May 2016 at 01:46:37 UTC, tsbockman wrote:
Shouldn't a union type always have an `alignof` at least as
great as the `alignof` for its largest member?
On x86, there's a difference between the type alignment and the
field alignment.
The type align of ulong and double are 8
Is this a bug?
---
module app;
union Foo(A, B) {
A a;
B b;
}
void main() {
alias F = Foo!(double, ulong);
import std.stdio, std.algorithm;
writefln("sizeof: (%s >= %s) == %s",
F.sizeof, max(double.sizeof, ulong.sizeof),
F.sizeof >= max(double.sizeof,
