Dynamic arrays allocation size

[Brad Roberts]

On 3/26/13 12:01 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 3/26/13 2:53 PM, "Luís Marques" <luismarques at gmail.com>" wrote:
>> BTW, Andrei, what do you think the impact of this is for embedded
>> systems with unusual word lengths (combined with D's well-defined type
>> sizes)?
>
> I think we're a bit biased toward x86, but I also think C's cavalier
> approach to data sizes and operational semantics ain't better.
>
> Andrei

The bias towards x86 is less than the bias towards standard integer 
sizes.  D explicitly ignores platforms with odd sizes.  D does NOT 
support byte where byte is outside the range -127..128.  Etc.

Brad