Maximum Alignment Restrictions

[Joel Sherrill]

What is the rationale for the maximum alignment supported on a particular 
CPU family?  

My current problem is that the SPARC trap table must be on a 4K boundary
but that appears to be too large. 

My thinking is that there is no particular reason (except object format 
limitations) to place a CPU dependent limit on maximum alignment boundary.

Just curious.

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