check if this is relevant to your platform: 64 bit Intel does allow unaligned access, so you don't get an interrupt on misaligned access, and it's acceptable to

check if this is relevant to your platform: 64 bit Intel does allow unaligned access, so you don't get an interrupt on misaligned access, and it's acceptable to have one byte alignment. (I guess that's the reason why pahole isn't maintained any more, because it stopped to matter for the dominant platform). Of course it may very different if you work on embedded systems...