[dmd-internals] How to avoid 4-word padding for symbols?

[Walter Bright]

Michel Fortin wrote:
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> I mean the alignment of the symbols in a specific segment. In this case I need symbols inside the __protocol segment of the __OBJC section to have a 4-byte alignment. I'd have expected the align parameter of mach_getsegment() to do that, but setting it to 2 doesn't do anything.
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The segment alignment is for the whole segment, not for individual data 
items in it.

> Since all the symbols are 20 bytes I can just emit them with no alignment at all and I get the same result, that's what my small hack does.
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> If you clone the Git repository you'll see it's the last commit (01c7708c82).
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