Hello,
not all compilers align byte arrays to a 4 byte boundary on a 32 bit
machine or to a 2 byte boundary on a 16 bit machine. Even the GNU
comiler does not follow these alignment rules for all machines. For
example the h8300-elf toolchain does not align byte arrays and this is a
big problem for eCos development because the eCos source code contains a
number of byte arrays (i.e. the idle thread stack) that are expected to
be aligned. In my opinion, if a certain alignment of arrays is required
it should be explicit declared by using another data type (i.e. short or
long).
Regards, Uwe
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