A bug in struct module on the 64-bit platform?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Neal Norwitz wrote:

>> I have a user who complained about how "struct" module computes C
>> struct data size on Itanium2 based 64-bit machine.
>
> I wouldn't be surprised, but I don't understand the problem.
>
>>    >>struct.calcsize('idi')
>>    16
>>    >>struct.calcsize('idid')
>>    24
>>    >>struct.calcsize('did')
>>    20
>
> These are what I would expect on a 32 or 64 bit platform.  i == int, d
> == float.  ints are typically 4 bytes on 64 bit platforms.  If you want
> 8 byte integers, you typically need to use longs (format letter is ell,
> l).

except that the 64-bit double should, on most 64-bit platforms, have
64-bit alignment, so

    struct.calcsize('idi')

should be 4 bytes integer plus 4 bytes padding plus 8 bytes double plus
4 bytes integer, or 20 bytes.

I'd expect

    >>struct.calcsize('idi')
    20
    >>struct.calcsize('idid')
    32
    >>struct.calcsize('did')
    24

but I have no 64-bit box within reach just now...

or isn't "native alignment" the default?

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