From: "Jack K." <xos AT o2 DOT pl>
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Subject: Re: data alignment
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 15:24:28 +0200
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> There are limitations to the alignment which the target object file
> format can produce.  I think both DJGPP and MinGW are limited to 16
> bytes.  4096 will _certainly_ not work, but 16 should.
Under my djgpp doesn't.

> If you need 4K alignment, you need special code to allocate it at run
time.
But it is slower and needs more memory.

> What do you need this for?
I'm working about simple OS. Page tables and other structures need to be 4K
aligned.
Maby you knew how to do it using linker script?