https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85669
--- Comment #38 from Wilco <wdijkstr at arm dot com> --- (In reply to Douglas Mencken from comment #37) > And some more in my wish list. May GCC don’t generate these > > .align 2 > > in text section? Any, each and every powerpc instruction is 32bit-wide, no > and never more, no and never less, so these aligns are redundant You can have data in text sections, including bytes and half words. Even if instructions aligned automatically, the function label might be unaligned if it was preceded by a byte.