Good catch!
Wikipedia page does not even agree on longlong... But it's not the ultimate
normative reference, better check by ourselves!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_structure_alignment

Le ven. 29 mai 2020 à 15:53, Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de> a
écrit :

> Hi, there.
>
> In ExternalType class >> #initializeAtomicTypes, there is an interesting
> claim and a piece of dead code:
>
> "On 32 bits Windows and MacOS, double and long have an alignment of 8. But
> on Linux, their alignment is 4"
> (Smalltalk wordSize = 4 and: [Smalltalk platformName = 'unix']) ifTrue: [
> (#('double longlong ulonglong') includes: typeName) ifTrue: [
> byteAlignment := 4
> ]
> ].
>
> As you can see, there are single quotes missing and so will the path
> "byteAlignment  := 4" never be reached.
>
> I tried to figure out whether one should either fix the conditional or
> remove the entire passage. Maybe this got long fixed inside the FFI plugin?
>
> Best,
> Marcel
>
>
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