On 18-ott-10, at 04:00, Walter Bright wrote:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/attribute.html#align
Over time, it has become clear to me that there are only two useful
alignments:
align // set to whatever the C ABI alignment is
align(1) // pack everything in, no alignment padding
I think any other alignments should be deprecated. Note that with
align(1), any alignment is achievable simply by adding in byte
fields where desired.
I fully agree that those two are the only really useful alignment
properties for fields in a struct.
Another thing that is needed is specifying the alignment of the struct
itself, for example if it contains fields that one wants to use with
SSE.
So one should have the freedom to specify the wanted alignment for the
structure
Fawzi
