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Meaning of "natural alignment" is unclear
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Description
The CABI documentation uses the term "natural alignment" of a type without defining its meaning. Talking to different people I have encountered two common meanings of this word:
- it refers to the default alignment the type has without adding any alignment-modifying attributes
- it means the alignment equals the size of the type
For the sake of clarity of this spec, it would be good to spell out exactly which meaning is intended here.
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Research direction
Start with the “Function Arguments and Return Values” section of BasicCABI.md linked in the issue, then review the existing issue discussion for the intended interpretation. The work is done when the specification explicitly defines “natural alignment” so readers can distinguish the intended meaning.
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- wasm
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- documentation
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- Documentation
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- Stale
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