Setting a hard limit on slice size, is this possible?

[Tejas]

On Saturday, 7 August 2021 at 13:36:52 UTC, james.p.leblanc wrote:
> On Saturday, 7 August 2021 at 12:08:00 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
>> [...]
>
> **First, thanks all for helping with this question!**
>
> The simple desire to arbitrarily align an array is certainly 
> looking non-trivial.
> Below is a simple program of both the suggested "struct" and 
> "align array" solutions.
> Unfortunately, neither is guaranteed to place the array with 
> the desired alignnment.
>
> [...]

Umm, the ```align array``` solution is flat out wrong,  please 
ignore it. Most likely a bug in the compiler.

Also, why will the address of the first element of the array 
```modulo``` alignment be 0? The address of the array has 
absolutely nothing to do with the alignment.

You say that the ```align array``` solution has the expected 
spacing,  but it is default aligned, totally ignoring your 64 
byte requirement.

Don't use ```x.PTR%ALIGNMENT```
Use ```(&x[1]-&[2])%ALIGNMENT```

You will get ALIGNMENT*(2 -1)(since you took difference of 2nd 
and 1st elem)