05:22 <ronsor> is there a way to get a normal `fn` from a `bound fn`?

05:34 <ronsor> nevermind. I figured it out.

06:40 <BoilerOnAsurf> Hi, does anybody know if there is a way to express the desired alignment for a struct? something like "alignas" in C++? I can see that I can specify it when instantiating, but I can't find the syntax for defining it on a type

10:09 <ifreund> for normal structs I don't think there is a way since the compiler is free to reorder the fields at will, you'd have to specify it when instantiating

11:07 <wjlroe> Does anyone know if there's anything in the std library for finding out if a file path refers to a directory, file or whatever? I'm catching errors when opening the path and trying to read it, which is very unwealdy right now

11:13 <Nypsie[m]> there's stat() on std.fs which you can use to check if a file is a file with .kind == .File, but not aware of anything like that for paths/directories

11:16 <Nypsie[m]> Ah, I think same strategy should work on Dir handles as internally it's just a file description, which means you can also call stat() on a Dir struct

11:17 <wjlroe> ah, interesting, thanks

12:47 <BoilerOnAsurf> ifreund_ even if the compiler reorder them, the alignment constrain won't change for the type. My issue is that If I say that I want a 3 byte struct aligned at 4, i still get the sizeOf of 3 instead of 4, and that's weird as I would expect sizeof to express the distance between two object in an array of item of that type. I can handle it manually,

12:47 <BoilerOnAsurf> so I guess is alright.

13:22 <ifreund> BoilerOnASurf: the compiler is theoretically also free to e.g. only pass the subset of a struct that is actually used in a function to that function, possibly leaving out fields which would cause greater alignment

13:29 <BoilerOnAsurf> ifreund but that won't change the value of ``@sizeOf(@TypeOf(my_parameter))`` as the type is the same

13:32 <BoilerOnAsurf> I have a snippet but I'm not sure where is better to ask this question, what if I ask on StackOverflow and post the link here? is that fine or there is a better place?

19:26 <jaredmm> Code doesn't paste well in IRC, so you'd want to put the code into a pastebin or similar and link it here with the question. Nothing wrong with asking on something like SO and linking it, either.

22:11 <letoram> watching the andrewrk interview - +1 for vnvnation

23:05 <jasom> I'm just experimenting with zig networking and ran into this strangeness that someone could perhaps explain: https://gist.github.com/jasom/c371eea48e39e64b39ea8eb7fe047acb all of the families end up printing "Unknown" even though their values look like AF_INET and AF_INET6?

23:59 <jasom> If I store the result of the switch in a var, it works as expected *shrug*