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Document union alignment guarantee?
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Description
Currently https://github.com/rust-lang/reference/blob/master/src/items/unions.md only document size guarantee of union.
Can Rust guarantee that alignment of union somehow? Like it is the same as biggest alignment of all fields?
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Research direction
Read src/items/unions.md and review the existing documentation of union size guarantees. Determine whether Rust has a defined alignment guarantee for unions, then document the established behavior in that section if the question can be resolved.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100