I see many comments here acting like this means not aligning on word boundaries (e.g. using packed pragma, sandy bridge have unaligned access, etc.). This has n

I see many comments here acting like this means not aligning on word boundaries (e.g. using packed pragma, sandy bridge have unaligned access, etc.). This has nothing to do with word alignment. As the article states at the beginning, this is about aligning to page boundaries, which is on a very different level than word boundaries or structure packing. Let's not get these confused.