>>>>> Yaro Pollak writes: Yaro> Yes, I actually couldn't tell whether I should use -mno-strict-align or Yaro> -mstrict-align from the explanation in GCC documentation (thank you for Yaro> your explanation) so I tried both, but it didn't matter at all. I guess Yaro> I should have mentioned that before. Perhaps any other ideas? I feel it Yaro> is something fundamental that I keep missing. Can you provide a small function and command-line option used to compile the function that demonstrates the problem? David