Alignment of dynamic arrays

Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jan 9 06:38:07 PST 2015


On 1/9/15 8:02 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On 1/9/15 7:43 AM, Robert burner Schadek wrote:
>> On Friday, 9 January 2015 at 11:19:47 UTC, bearophile wrote:
>>> If you have a 16-byte aligned array of doubles and you slice the first
>>> double away, what's the alignment of the result?
>>
>> the first double[0] is 16-byte aligned, double[1] would be 20-byte
>> aligned as a double is 4 byte long.
>>
>> p.s. I'm properly wrong as my last two posts contained errors
>
> *sigh* s/20/24, s/4 byte/8 byte :)

Bleh, even that is wrong :) second element would be 8-byte aligned, not 
24-byte aligned.

-Steve


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