error/E0691: include alignment in error message #113913
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Include the computed alignment of the violating field when rejecting transparent types with non-trivially aligned ZSTs.
ZST member fields in transparent types must have an alignment of 1 (to ensure it does not raise the layout requirements of the transparent field). The current error message looks like this:
This patch changes the report to include the alignment of the violating field:
In case of unknown alignments, it will yield:
This allows developers to get a better grasp why a specific field is rejected. Knowing the alignment of the violating field makes it easier to judge where that alignment-requirement originates, and thus hopefully provide better hints on how to mitigate the problem.
This idea was proposed in 2022 in #98071 as part of a bigger change. This commit simply extracts this error-message change, to decouple it from the other diagnostic improvements.
(Originally proposed by @compiler-errors in #98071)