On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 08:33:58AM +0200, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: > Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> > schrieb am Mi., 29. März 2023, 00:27: > > > Hello, > > > > On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 09:35:38PM +0200, Jonas Maebe via fpc-pascal wrote: > > > On 27/03/2023 21:25, denisgolovan via fpc-pascal wrote: > > > > > > > But it's still not possible to attach alignment to type itself instead > > of variable, right? > > > > > > It is possible ( > > https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/blob/main/tests/test/talignrec1.pp > > ), > > > but it is subject to the same limitations when declaring variables of > > those > > > types. > > > > > > > Thanks, this is what I was looking for, however, when the type is > > defined as an array, only the [0] element is aligned. I was expecting > > that each element in the array would be aligned. > > > > No, array types are defined as never having padding between the elements. > You need to make sure that the element is appropriately sized then. >
So if I have a type like: test = record r: DWord; s: Word; end; Then, I define the variable `nada` as an array of `test` type: var nada: array[0..2] of test; Is the `@nada[1].r` element aligned to 4-bytes? Thanks, Matias. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
