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		phkahler on Nov 7, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A bug story: data alignment on x86 What if you put the array in a struct and made a union of both uint32_t and uint8_t? Would the union with the larger size force the compiler to generate a 4-byte aligned array for the bytes? I suggest this because it would be portable without any compiler specific stuff.

mzs on Nov 7, 2016 [–]

It's already too late, the data is read from a file so the base of the array can be say at address 0xYYYYY2.

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