Why dynamic arrays in a struct crash when they are effectively at 8 byte align, but precceeded with align(1)?

[kinke]

On Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 12:04:12 UTC, realhet wrote:
> The struct's footprint is the same, yet it requires default 
> align: or align(n) at least 8.
> Are there any official requirements for these fap pointers?
> (Win32 64bit LDC)

You're hitting https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/4236 
here, which might get fixed soon (TurkeyMan is currently working 
on it).

Note that while the offset of `subNodes` is 8 in both cases (no 
need for `dummy`), that doesn't mean that the alignment is 8 - 
because the alignment of the `WorkorderNode` struct is 4 in the 
2nd case (the maximum of all field alignments).