https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82265
--- Comment #3 from etienne_lorrain at yahoo dot fr --- I do not know how I finished adding such packed attribute on my variables and not seeing any warnings, on the gcc-4.7.1 I used at the time. That looks indeed a bug in the documentation only - I probably wanted to be conforming to the documentation (and save data size). So, packed attribute on variables should be removed from documentation, and maybe document that attribute "aligned(1)" is not the "minimum alignment" of the variable but the "required/forced alignment". Fine for me for the bug to be closed when documentation updated. Thanks, Etienne.