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On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 05:36:29PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Or are you saying that gcc aligns normal 32-bit entities at 
> 16-bit alignment? Neither of those sound very likely.

alignof(u32) is 2 on m68k.  Crazy, huh?