Stewart Gordon Wrote: > At the moment, the problem seems to be that the compiler is silently > ignoring many cases of (a), (b) and (c) alike. Some people argue that > the spec doesn't forbid such use of inapplicable attributes explicitly, > and so the compiler's treatment of these cannot be called a bug. > > I argue that this isn't right. Nothing I've managed to find in the spec > states or implies that such obviously wrong code is allowed. So, by > applying common sense, one would conclude that it isn't allowed.
Such mood was always in the spec: "AlignAttribute is ignored when applied to declarations that are not structs or struct members".
