On Fri, 30 Sep 2022, David Laight wrote: > > > > Regarding "conflicting" alignment requests: yes, I agree with you, > > > > it would have to be a toolchain bug if when asked to align 2 and to > > > > align 4, it chose not to align 4. > > See https://godbolt.org/z/3nGsTaf5e > the align() directive takes precedence. > > Here you only want to ensure the alignment is at least 4. Sorry, I don't understand the point you are making, nor how to deduce it from the link which you give: I'll leave it to those who understand better. Hugh