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Fix an error in repr(C) struct offset pseudocode #559

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Fix an error in repr(C) struct offset pseudocode #559

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5 changes: 4 additions & 1 deletion src/type-layout.md
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Expand Up @@ -184,7 +184,10 @@ for field in struct.fields_in_declaration_order() {
// Increase the current offset so that it's a multiple of the alignment
// of this field. For the first field, this will always be zero.
// The skipped bytes are called padding bytes.
current_offset += field.alignment % current_offset;
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There's another "current_offset + current_offset % struct.alignment" further down, why doesn't that need fixing, too?

let misalignment = current_offset % field.alignment;
if misalignment > 0 {
current_offset += field.alignment - misalignment;
}

struct[field].offset = current_offset;

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