Why are sets by default aligned to their own size? Seems a bit excessive. The 2.6.x series does too though, so I thought I'd ask about the reasons.

(The size of

type
 TSomerecord = record
                   x : byte;
                   s : set of byte;
                 end;

is 64-byte), iow 31-bytes of alignment are inserted?

Marco van de Voort wrote

Why are sets by default aligned to their own size?

Probably because that's the default way in which FPC aligns any type, unless it's explicitly overridden (and it was never overridden for sets).

Jonas