Jonathan P . Olson writes:
> Unfortunately, (IMHO) the linux-arm port of GCC aligns all structures
> to a word boundary, even if it only contains bytes. ARM is the only
> port which does this and it does so for no real good architectural reason.
> Probably this originated with some old ACORN boards which couldn't access
> bytes because they didn't have lower address strobes.
That's, erm, what's the nicest way to put it? Crap. All Acorn machines
had the ability to access to byte level.
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