https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61296
--- Comment #3 from H.J. Lu <hjl.tools at gmail dot com> --- Comments for DATA_ALIGNMENT One use of this macro is to increase alignment of medium-size data to make it all fit in fewer cache lines. Another is to cause character arrays to be word-aligned so that `strcpy' calls that copy constants to character arrays can be done inline. was added by https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=patch;h=ed45e834f305d1f2709bf200a13d5beebc2fcfee to improve x86 FP performance, which might be partially copied from CONSTANT_ALIGNMENT: https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=patch;h=f7d6703c5d83fc9fb06246d6eb49e9b61098045c
