Support sizeof
and alignof
inside macros for stable types
#15497
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This PR enables the use of
sizeof
andalignof
in macro expressions when the type's size and alignment are known to be stable, i.e. their values cannot be changed by adding new code. The idea was raised in this forum thread and possibly in other GitHub issues as well. With this PR you can write compile-time checks like:All types are stable, except for the following:
Bytes
ReferenceStorage
instancesGC
(not to be confused withGC.class
, all metaclasses are stable)Array
x = uninitialized Flags
(these "types" are ill-behaved anyway)StaticArray
,Tuple
,NamedTuple
, andUnion
instances containing any unstable constituent typestypeof
is disallowed, because we obviously cannot do any kind of non-macro semantic analysis inside macros.Although the non-macro
sizeof
andalignof
support constants, their macro counterparts do not, even when constant evaluates to a simple compile-time literal (A = 1; {{ sizeof(A) }}
).