Mojo: Require our public options structs to be aligned like int64_t's.

mojo/public/c/system/macros.h

Index: mojo/public/c/system/macros.h
diff --git a/mojo/public/c/system/macros.h b/mojo/public/c/system/macros.h
index 322c3be61f7cb8f7d9cac345770504537964df97..4ce3cba115182d2bb6ccd6ecc3c2b55f4f6b6137 100644
--- a/mojo/public/c/system/macros.h
+++ b/mojo/public/c/system/macros.h
@@ -26,8 +26,10 @@
 #define MOJO_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT
 #endif
 
+// Assert things at compile time. (|msg| should be a valid identifier name.)
 // This macro is currently C++-only, but we want to use it in the C core.h.
-// Used to assert things at compile time.
+// Use like:
+//   MOJO_COMPILE_ASSERT(sizeof(Foo) == 12, Foo_has_invalid_size);
 #if __cplusplus >= 201103L
 #define MOJO_COMPILE_ASSERT(expr, msg) static_assert(expr, #msg)
 #elif defined(__cplusplus)
@@ -38,4 +40,28 @@ namespace mojo { template <bool> struct CompileAssert {}; }
 #define MOJO_COMPILE_ASSERT(expr, msg)
 #endif
 
+// Like the C++11 |alignof| operator.
+#if __cplusplus >= 201103L
+#define MOJO_ALIGNOF(type) alignof(type)

[darin (slow to review), 2014/05/28 21:35:14]

I wonder if these shouldn't be MOJO_ALIGN_OF and MOJO_ALIGN_AS to help
readability. I realize the natives don't have the underscores, but ALIGNAS in
particular took be a moment to parse.

+#elif defined(__GNUC__)
+#define MOJO_ALIGNOF(type) __alignof__(type)
+#elif defined(_MSC_VER)
+// The use of |sizeof| is to work around a bug in MSVC 2010 (see
+// http://goo.gl/isH0C; supposedly fixed since then).
+#define MOJO_ALIGNOF(type) (sizeof(type) - sizeof(type) + __alignof(type))
+#else
+#error "Please define MOJO_ALIGNOF() for your compiler."
+#endif
+
+// Specify the alignment of a |struct|, etc.
+// Use like:
+//   struct MOJO_ALIGNAS(8) Foo { ... };
+#if defined(__GNUC__)
+#define MOJO_ALIGNAS(alignment) __attribute__((aligned(alignment)))
+#elif defined(_MSC_VER)
+#define MOJO_ALIGNAS(alignment) __declspec(align(alignment))
+#else
+#error "Please define MOJO_ALIGNAS() for your compiler."
+#endif
+
 #endif  // MOJO_PUBLIC_C_SYSTEM_MACROS_H_