On 23 August 2015 at 12:05, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 12:15:56AM +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote: >> because alignments must be a power of 2. > > That is true in C++, but not true in C or even POSIX afaics? C11 §6.2.8 "Every valid alignment value shall be a nonnegative integral power of two."