> On 03-Aug-2016, at 10:02 AM, Chris Lattner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Right. In the future we will probably add the ability to put explicit > alignment/layout information on structure fields. This would be useful for > this, as well as other cases where you’re trying to match a specific layout > used in an on-disk file format or memory mapped device.
That was exactly my use case. I’m storing raw structs in LMDB. > That said, this doesn’t fit in the scope for Swift 4 stage 1. Though a bit cumbersome, Dmitri’s solution is good enough for now. It’ll be great to have this directly supported in Swift. Thanks KS Sreeram _______________________________________________ swift-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-users
