DATA_ALIGNMENT vs. DECL_USER_ALIGNMENT
Robert Dewar
dewar@gnat.com
Thu Apr 10 21:29:00 GMT 2003
> This is the terminology point that Robert alluded to. If something
> has an alignment of 64 bits, it *also* has an alignment of 32 bits and
> of 16 bits, etc. So an object that is aligned to 64 bits and is of a
> type that is aligned to 32 bits *has* "the properties (including
> alignment)" of its type.
It's not just that. It would also be fine to have
type x is record ....
for x'alignment use 2;
xx : x;
Put_Line (Integer'Image (XX'Alignment));
output a value of 4 or 8 or ...
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