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  1. JDK
  2. JDK-8252584

HotSpot Style Guide should permit alignas

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    • Enhancement
    • Status: Resolved
    • P4
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 16
    • 20
    • hotspot
    • b26

    Description

      Add alignas to the permitted features set, but only for variables, not for classes. Classes have the problem that dynamic allocation is unaware of alignment restrictions. (That's fixed in C++17. Though we might be able to add it ourselves for our allocators.)

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              jwaters Julian Waters
              kbarrett Kim Barrett
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