https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114955
--- Comment #2 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> --- Also DATA_ALIGNMENT (and LOCAL_ALIGNMENT) does not conflict with `pragma pack`. The documentation says https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Structure-Layout-Pragmas.html : ``` that change the maximum alignment of members of structures (other than zero-width bit-fields), unions, and classes subsequently defined. ``` This does not mean a target is not free to increase the alignment of a global (or local) variable to begin with. It just means the alignment of a struct is that so that pointers of that struct will be with the lower alignment. Targets/GCC could increase alignment of global and local variables even without worrying about the alignment of the struct.
