memory alignment within gcc structs

Question

I am porting an application to an ARM platform in C, the application also runs on an x86 processor, and must be backward compatible.

I am now having some issues with

Answer 1

As I am using linux, I have found that by echo 3 > /proc/cpu/alignment it will issue me with a warning, and fix the alignment issue. This is a work around but it is very helpful with locating where the structures are failing to be misaligned.