Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: Another snippet, from the latest public draft of the System V x86-64 ABI [1]:
"""Structures and unions assume the alignment of their most strictly aligned compo- nent. Each member is assigned to the lowest available offset with the appropriate alignment. The size of any object is always a multiple of the object‘s alignment.""" I'd be fine with using the largest alignment, as above, instead of computing an lcm; I can't believe it'll ever make a difference in practice. For an empty struct (not allowed in C99, but allowed as a gcc extension, and allowed by the struct module), the alignment would be 1, of course. [1] http://www.x86-64.org/documentation/abi.pdf ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3132> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
