Alignment of dynamic arrays

[bearophile via Digitalmars-d]

Luc Bourhis:

> With "auto a = new double[1000]", is there any guarantee that  
> a.ptr is aligned on a 16-byte boundary?

Arrays are aligned on a 16-byte. But if you slice them, this 
alignment can be broken.

In past I suggested to put the alignment of an array in the D 
type system, as an optional extra information (if the alignment 
is not correct this causes compile-time errors in some cases and 
some run-time errors when the slicing bounds are runtime values).

Bye,
bearophile