ImportC and #pragma pack

[Kenneth Dallmann]

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?

I have to add to my message.

    If D is not a superset of C then there's no need for 
"compatibility".
There are already enough underlying differences in syntax that D 
is not truly
"compatible" with C.  You could make D a typechecked Python with 
little similarities
in syntax and still say it is compatible.

So long as it can be translated to C and that it can build symbol 
tables of C, for
typing, then it would still have all the same usability as 
"betterC".