Alignment Attributes

Use the __attribute__ ((aligned(...))) directive to specify to the compiler on what memory boundary to store data objects.

The syntax of the directive is:

__attribute__ ((aligned(<n>))

where <n> is a decimal number of a power of 2 from 1 to 4096.

• Alignment Attribute and Global Variable Declarations
  
• Alignment Attribute and typedef Declarations
  
• Alignment Attribute and Struct Members