struct field reordering (minimizing padding)

2026-08-09 14:12:25 +02:00
parent 729488e702
commit 6688822de2
4 changed files with 111 additions and 15 deletions
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ roadmap and milestone history.
 - narrow immutable zero-terminated byte pointer/slice conversion to `*c_char` / `?*c_char` without general `u8`/`c_char` interchange
 - optionals with `null`, `orelse`, postfix `?`, conditional unwraps, guarded unwraps, and left-to-right short-circuiting multi-unwraps
 - nominal distinct types with explicit scalar backing conversion during construction and explicit scalar backing extraction, native enums with optional explicit integer backing and explicit backing-to-scalar casts, contextual enum literals, and imported C enums as target-backed integer aliases
- source-order native structs, opaque nominal records with `Name :: opaque`, complete `c_struct { ... }`, keyed record literals, native untagged unions, and native tagged unions `union(Enum)` / `union(enum)`
+- compiler-reordered native structs with fields laid out by decreasing alignment (declaration order breaks ties and remains the reflection/diagnostic order), opaque nominal records with `Name :: opaque`, complete source-order `c_struct { ... }`, keyed record literals, native untagged unions, and native tagged unions `union(Enum)` / `union(enum)`
 - named native struct fields may declare defaults with `field T = expression`; keyed literals use defaults for omitted fields and explicit initializers override them
 - void-payload tagged-union variants, anonymous struct payloads, contextual `.variant`, `.variant{payload}`, and `.variant{field = value}` construction
 - native sum composition with `A | B` for unbacked enums and tagged unions, optionally grouped as `(A | B)`, using program-global `u16` variant ids