There are situations when you want to overalign code and data sections. How you deal with them depends on whether or not you have access to the source code:
If you have access to the original source code, you can do this at compile time with the
__align(n)keyword or the--min_array_alignmentcommand-line option, for example.If you do not have access to the source code, then you must use the following alignment specifiers in a scatter file:
ALIGNALLIncreases the section alignment of all the sections in an execution region, for example:
ER_DATA ... ALIGNALL 8 { ... ;selectors }OVERALIGNIncreases the alignment of a specific section, for example:
ER_DATA ... { *.o(.bar, OVERALIGN 8) ... ;selectors }
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