[Haskell-cafe] Begginer question about alignment in Storable

[Michael D. Adams]

If you are using hsc2hs (if you are using Cabal this is easy; just
rename the file to *.hsc and Cabal will take care of the rest), then
there is a macro for making this easier and so you don't have to think
about it.

First, place the following at the top of your source file:

#let alignment t = "%lu", (unsigned long)offsetof(struct {char x__; t
(y__); }, y__)

Then #{alignment c_type} will always be expanded by hsc2hs to the
correct alignment for the C type named c_type.

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Maurí­cio <briqueabraque at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to make the following structure into
> an instance of Storable:
>
> struct {
>  double w[2];
> }
>
> Can I assume that its function 'alignment' should
> return the same as "alignment (1::CDouble)"? Or
> should it be "2 * alignment (1::CDouble)"?
>
> (I've read the wikipedia article about memory alignment,
> and what I understand is that there's a better alignment
> for hardware efficiency but compilers and programmers can
> do almost anything about it. What can I do when writing
> a library wrapper if I don't know what kind of compiler
> pragmas were used in all platforms that library was
> compiled?)
>
> Thanks,
> Maurício
>
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