From 192178f936f0057932e117183f774f0e2cce832c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joshua Liebow-Feeser <joshlf@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2023 16:26:40 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Guarantee `char` layout

---
 src/types/textual.md | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/types/textual.md b/src/types/textual.md
index 41ed35ea1..fcbec0823 100644
--- a/src/types/textual.md
+++ b/src/types/textual.md
@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ is valid UTF-8. Calling a `str` method with a non-UTF-8 buffer can cause
 Since `str` is a [dynamically sized type], it can only be instantiated through a
 pointer type, such as `&str`.
 
-## Bit validity
+## Layout and bit validity
+
+`char` is guaranteed to have the same size and alignment as `u32` on all platforms.
 
 Every byte of a `char` is guaranteed to be initialized (in other words,
 `transmute::<char, [u8; size_of::<char>()]>(...)` is always sound -- but since