[cfe-dev] 'struct' member alignment query

[Martin J. O'Riordan via cfe-dev]

Wow!  Thanks for the response, that worked perfectly.

I never would have expected that the indirect 'typedef' approach would behave any differently to the more direct annotation!  I feel that this is probably an unintended GCC behaviour/bug, though CLang is 100% right to maintain compatibility with GCC.

But it solved my problem, thanks very much,

	MartinO

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Northover [mailto:t.p.northover at gmail.com] 
Sent: 09 February 2017 15:08
To: Martin J. O'Riordan <Martin.ORiordan at movidius.com>
Cc: cfe-dev <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org>
Subject: Re: [cfe-dev] 'struct' member alignment query

On 9 February 2017 at 02:56, Martin J. O'Riordan via cfe-dev <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> Is this expected behaviour in 'clang', and if so, is there another way 
> I can coerce the 'struct' member 'alignCheck2' onto another less 
> constrained alignment boundary?

It's expected, but I think only because of GCC compatibility because it's really not obvious behaviour. The workaround, which still mystifies me, is to go via a typedef:

typedef AlignCheck_t __attribute__((aligned(1))) UnAlignCheck_t;

then you can put that in the struct and it'll be laid out without any padding.

Tim.