------- Additional Comments From jakub at gcc dot gnu dot org 2005-04-07 14:26 ------- > That's wrong. The size always needs to be a multiple of the alignment. > That's fundamental.
With user defined alignment, size certainly is not necessarily a multiple of the alignment and with the exception of arrays it shouldn't cause any problems. In arrays I agree this is a problem. Now, the question is what to do: 1) issue error whenever a type with alignment bigger than size is used in an array 2) align the whole array and change the element type silently to a type with alignment equal to the element size -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20794
