A `#[repr(..)]` attribute was placed on an unsupported item. Examples of erroneous code: ```compile_fail,E0517 #[repr(C)] type Foo = u8; #[repr(packed)] enum Foo {Bar, Baz} #[repr(u8)] struct Foo {bar: bool, baz: bool} #[repr(C)] impl Foo { // ... } ``` * The `#[repr(C)]` attribute can only be placed on structs and enums. * The `#[repr(packed)]` and `#[repr(simd)]` attributes only work on structs. * The `#[repr(u8)]`, `#[repr(i16)]`, etc attributes only work on enums. These attributes do not work on typedefs, since typedefs are just aliases. Representations like `#[repr(u8)]`, `#[repr(i64)]` are for selecting the discriminant size for enums. For enums with no data fields on any of the variants, e.g. `enum Color {Red, Blue, Green}`, this effectively sets the size of the enum to the size of the provided type. Such an enum can be cast to a value of the same type as well. In short, `#[repr(u8)]` makes a field-less enum behave like an integer with a constrained set of allowed values. For a description of how `#[repr(C)]` and representations like `#[repr(u8)]` affect the layout of enums with data fields, see [RFC 2195][rfc2195]. Only field-less enums can be cast to numerical primitives. Representations like `#[repr(u8)]` will not apply to structs. `#[repr(packed)]` reduces padding to make the struct size smaller. The representation of enums isn't strictly defined in Rust, and this attribute won't work on enums. `#[repr(simd)]` will give a struct consisting of a homogeneous series of machine types (i.e., `u8`, `i32`, etc) a representation that permits vectorization via SIMD. This doesn't make much sense for enums since they don't consist of a single list of data. [rfc2195]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/2195-really-tagged-unions.md