Alignment of struct containing SIMD field - GDC

[Cecil Ward via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 1 March 2017 at 22:15:59 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On Wednesday, 1 March 2017 at 19:09:24 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 1 March 2017 at 18:34:16 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>>>
>>> Simple test case would be:
>>>
>>> struct vec_struct {
>>>     bool b2;
>>>     struct {
>>>         bool b;
>>>         int8 field;
>>>     }
>>> }
>>>
>>> static assert(vec_struct.b.offsetof == 32);
>>> static assert(vec_struct.field.offsetof == 64);
>>
>> With explicit align(32), it works:
>> https://godbolt.org/g/3GjOHW
>>
>> - Johan
>
> Well obviously, because it adheres to explicit alignment.  The 
> compiler just has the wrong idea of how default alignment 
> should work.
>
> Raised bug here, and I'm raising a PR now also. 
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17237

Thanks for your help Iain. And many thanks btw for all the 
general good work which is very much appreciated by this 
particular geriatric asm programmer.

I checked the case of XMM alignment, and it's fine.

I presume D does not yet support 512-bit zmm vector objects? (I 
have seen GDC doing a nice job generating auto-vectorised AVX512 
code though - thanks.) The same bug would presumably bite again 
in that case otherwise?