RE: alignment faults in 3.6

quoted

It might be enough to use __attribute__((aligned(2))) on some structure
members (actually does 'ldm' need 8 byte alignment?? - in which case
aligned(4) is enough).

The aligned attribute can only increase alignment.

Not true.
If you have:

struct foo {
    short   a;
    int     b __attribute__((aligned(2)));
    short   c;
};

You'll find sizeof (struct foo) is 8, and that, on arm/sparc etc,
gcc will generate 2 16bit accesses (and shifts) for foo.b;

	David