[dmd-internals] Testcase in test42.d

[Walter Bright]

On 4/5/2013 1:48 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On 4 April 2013 19:02, Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com 
> <mailto:walter at digitalmars.com>> wrote:
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>     On 4/4/2013 9:57 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
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>         What exactly is this testing for?  Should I even care if it fails?
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>         https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/blob/master/test/runnable/test42.d#L613
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>         It *looks* like it is expecting the data to be aligned to 16 bytes.
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>     Yes.
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>         But why should this matter?
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>     People use such constructs to support SIMD code, which requires 16 byte
>     alignment.
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> Is this expected for all shared types? Or just shared structs.
>

It has nothing to do with it being shared or not.
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