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𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑜 is a utility for checking and viewing Golang struct alignment info.

Struct alignment is the extra space added between fields in a struct to align them in memory according to the CPU's word size.

By understanding and managing struct padding (e.g., reordering fields), you can improve program performance, reduce memory usage, and ensure data integrity.

This tool aims to provide a visual way, but also a GitHub Action to report possible improvements in your code.

You can refer @codingwithkushal's Go struct alignment issues article, if you want to understand further.

To build the aligo from scratch, make sure you have a working Go 1.22+ workspace (instructions), then:

go install github.com/essentialkaos/aligo/v2@latest

For using aligo with GitHub Actions use this workflow file or add job Aligo to your workflow:

name: Aligo

on:
  push:
    branches: [master, develop]
  pull_request:
    branches: [master]

jobs:
  Aligo:
    name: Aligo
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Set up Go
        uses: actions/setup-go@v2
        with:
          go-version: '1.22.x'

      - name: Check Golang sources with Aligo
        uses: essentialkaos/aligo-action@v2
        with:
          files: ./...

You can generate completion for bash, zsh or fish shell.

Bash:

sudo aligo --completion=bash 1> /etc/bash_completion.d/aligo

ZSH:

sudo aligo --completion=zsh 1> /usr/share/zsh/site-functions/aligo

Fish:

sudo aligo --completion=fish 1> /usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/aligo.fish

You can generate man page for aligo using next command:

aligo --generate-man | sudo gzip > /usr/share/man/man1/aligo.1.gz

Q: I think my struct is well aligned. How can I disable check for it?

A: You could add a comment with text aligo:ignore for this struct, and aligo will ignore all problems with it. Example:

// This is my supa-dupa struct
// aligo:ignore
type MyStruct struct {
  A bool
  B int
}

Branch	Status
master
develop

Before contributing to this project please read our Contributing Guidelines.

We would like to thank:

• @mdempsky for maligned utility;
• @tyranron for golang-sizeof.tips website.

Apache License, Version 2.0