https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85669
--- Comment #37 from Douglas Mencken <dougmencken at gmail dot com> --- 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