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Mon Nov 7 23:37:46 CET 2011 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-November/114372.html

Hi all,

gcc allows to set alignments for typedefs like:

typedef double MyDouble __attribute__((__aligned__(8)));

Now if i use this new type within a structure:

struct s {
	char c;
	MyDouble d;
};

The following holds: sizeof(struct s) == 16 and offsetof(struct s, d) == 8.

ctypes doesn't seem to support this, although i saw a 'padded' function on
the ctypes-users mailinglist which dynamically insert padding fields. I would 
consider this more or less a hack :)

What do you think about adding a special attribute '_align_' which, if set for
a data type overrides the hardcoded align property of that type?

-- 
Michael

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