https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51628
--- Comment #24 from Sven <sven.koehler at gmail dot com> --- Comment #4 mentions typedef int myint __attribute__((aligned(1))); That shouldn't even work. The GCC documentation on Type Attributes mentions that "The aligned attribute can only increase the alignment". It goes on to mention the packed attribute, which can be used to decrease alignment. But as far as I know, that attributes was designed for structs. Anyhow, it seems that the aligned attribute is intended for increasing the alignment only - not for decreasing. Yet, when I checked __alignof(myint) with both gcc and clang, it was in fact decreased from 4 to 1. Not sure why. That seems to contradict the documentation.
