[Haskell-cafe] Storable types with zero size

[Douglas McClean]

My thinking was that an address p is valid for a type a iff p `mod`
(alignment (undefined :: a)) == 0 and that, at least in most languages, x
mod 0 is undefined. In contrast, anything mod 1 is 0.
On Dec 19, 2015 10:01 AM, "Carter Schonwald" <carter.schonwald at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 1 byte alignment might be tricky.
>
> When talking about storable, its helpful to keep in mind that it's meant
> to facilitate c interop, and ask what the corresponds with unit in c land,
>  and I think the answer is 0 bits :)
>
>
>
> On Friday, December 18, 2015, Douglas McClean <douglas.mcclean at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Can the sizeOf a Storable type be 0?
>>
>> As far as I can see the documentation doesn't say. I wouldn't expect
>> there to be a problem, but there also isn't an instance Storable (), which
>> I was expecting to see.
>>
>> If so, should its alignment be 1 or 0?
>>
>>
>> -Doug McClean
>>
>
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