changing alignment requirement of object type?

[BarrOff25]

Hello,

for a little project I need a certain memory layout and tried to use the align 
pragma to achieve it. The default alignment requirement for an object type 
seems to be 4? Using lower values (1 or 2) in the align pragma is therefore 
useless, because they are ignored, as outlined in the manual. How can I change 
this default value?

Here is an example, the size should be 6, but is actually 8:
    
    
    type
      myType = object
        field1 {.align(1).}: uint32
        field2 {.align(1).}: uint16
    
    echo "Alignment of myType is: " & $alignof(myType)
    doAssert sizeof(myType) == 6, "Actual type size is: " & $sizeof(myType)
    
    
    Run