Request: Pragma to specify the alignment of object fields

[gmpreussner]

I was looking for something like {.align: 8.} to override how fields in an object are packed in memory, but couldn't find anything. I'm currently creating some bindings for C library that make heavy use of align().

Example:

type Foo {.align: 8.} = object
  x: int
  y: int

Or maybe we can reuse the {.packed.} pragma for that.

[Araq]

Is there a C library left that's not full of junk? ;-)

Anyway if you write the wrapper to use header and importc for the fields, you don't have to replicate the alignment instructions.