Neat project: add pointer capability to std.bitmanip.bitfields

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 4 December 2015 at 10:31:19 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
wrote:
> I realized this was off after posting but I don't understand 
> your reasoning either. The size and alignment just put a bound 
> on the number of bits, but without verification in the setter 
> you can't be sure, right?

If one of the bit within the alignment is not 0, that mean you 
did something unsafe previously to create that pointer. There 
should be no safe way (and I know of no safe way) to create such 
a pointer.

In fact, some hardware will outright fault if you try to 
manipulate unaligned data.