[swift-evolution] [Pitch] Renaming sizeof, sizeofValue, strideof, strideofValue

[Sean Heber]

This might be silly, but what if there were a struct with all of the relevant fields (not sure what the best name would be):

struct MemoryLayout {
  let size: Int
  let alignment: Int
  let stride: Int
 // etc
}

Then you’d only maybe need two functions:

memoryLayout(of:) and memoryLayout(ofType:)

Or perhaps just a single property on all types named “memoryLayout” (or whatever) that returns the MemoryLayout struct:

Int.memory.size
type(of: 42).memoryLayout.size
// etc

Or just a single property on UnsafePointer if we went that route..

It seems like this sort of approach would keep namespace pollution down, at least?

l8r
Sean


> On Jun 2, 2016, at 4:55 PM, Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
> 
>> I don't disagree with the points you make.  But one can argue that this is a good thing.  It calls attention to code that requires extra attention and care.  In some ways this is similar to 'UnsafeMutablePointer<T>' vs '*T'.  Verbosity was a deliberate choice in that case.
> 
> You know...rather than introducing a new type like MemoryLayout, would it make sense to do this with static properties on UnsafePointer?
> 
> 	UnsafePointer<Int>.pointeeSize
> 	UnsafePointer<Int>.pointeeAlignment
> 	UnsafePointer<Int>.pointeeSpacing
> 
> If you need this information, 90% of the time you're probably using UnsafePointer or one of its friends, right?
> 
> -- 
> Brent Royal-Gordon
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