[phobos] byte alignment for arrays

[Steve Schveighoffer]

All,

Should there be something in the runtime that defines the minimum align size for things like memory blocks?  That might make this easier to deal with from a design perspective...

-Steve



----- Original Message ----
> From: Jason Spencer <spencer8 at sbcglobal.net>
> 
> Hmmm.  The natural thing would be to have some type to describe these 
> 128-bit values (akin to __m128 in gcc, Intel and MS compilers) and use sizeof on 
> that.  I don't see that D has any MMX/SSE intrinsics, so I don't know if 
> there is a standard type.  If you don't have such a thing defined by the 
> compiler, I'd be tempted to define it, based on which version of the compiler 
> will compile this code (i.e. 32- or 64-bit dmd).  Then you can use that in 
> your sizeof.  Maybe you'll get lucky, and that will become standard 
> :)