New compilation error with #[repr(C, align(16))] and bytemuck_derive 1.2.0

[kpreid]

The following minimal reproduction case compiles when using bytemuck_derive 1.1.0 but not when using 1.2.0:

#[derive(Copy, Clone, bytemuck::Pod, bytemuck::Zeroable)]
#[repr(C, align(16))]
struct Foo {}

Pod cannot have padding, of course; the intent of this align repr in my real code is not to add padding, but to require the struct fields to add up to a multiple of 16 bytes or fail compilation. This used to work, but now fails to compile with bytemuck_derive 1.2.0:

error: unrecognized representation hint
 --> src/lib.rs:2:16
  |
2 | #[repr(C, align(16))]
  |                ^

I imagine commit 2c97676 is probably responsible for this regression since it substantially changed repr handling.

[Lokathor]

What does rust report that the size of Foo is? because, if it's repr(C) then i'm not sure it's going to be size 0 (C is weird about size 0 stuff), and if it's not size 0 and it's align 16 then it will have padding.

[kpreid]

Sorry, the 0-element struct was just for minimality. The same behavior appears when the struct is non-empty. For example I have the explicitly-"padded" struct

#[repr(C, align(16))]
#[derive(Debug, Copy, Clone, bytemuck::Pod, bytemuck::Zeroable)]
pub(crate) struct PaddedVec3 {
    pub data: [f32; 3],
    padding: f32,
}

that fails in the same way. (4 × f32 = 16 bytes exactly.) bytemuck is still (as far as I know) correctly rejecting padding; the problem here is (from what I can tell) purely a syntactic one: that it is refusing to accept repr(C, align(16)) even when that does not introduce any padding.

[Lokathor]

Yeah, this would absolutely be a bug then. I also suspect the cleanup. I'll pass this along to the person that did that cleanup pass, and try to get something soon.

In the mean time, of course you can always manually do the impl (though that's less than ideal i know).

[kpreid]

FYI, I can confirm the published fix is working. Thanks!

[Lokathor]

Excellent!