Is align(16) respected for globals?

[Johan Engelen via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 23 July 2017 at 08:43:33 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote:
> I rely a lot on such constants for SSE:
>
>     align(16) static immutable short[8] A = [ 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 
> 3, 3 ];
>
> Does such alignment actually work on all OS, at all times?
> Word on the street says align() doesn't work with globals.

Should work with LDC (part of our testsuite).