ImportC and #pragma pack

[Imperatorn]

On Tuesday, 28 September 2021 at 06:05:04 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22315
>
> I'm on the fence about implementing this. On the one hand, I 
> can do it and make it work. On the other hand, the C11 way is 
> to use _Alignas, and that's 10 years old now. How far do we go 
> with implementing all the nutburger obsolete C extension cruft 
> out there?

My vote is for supporting it. That way it will be complete, and I 
remember seeing it around networking and serialization contexts 
for example. I tried asking in some c/c++ forums and got an 
estimate at around 3-5% of stuff use it according to them. Not 
much, but also not below 1%.