On Jun 14, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 08:51:48AM +0100, Iain Hibbert wrote: >> Hm, does the stack have any natural alignment requirements on amd64, such >> that a 10-char array actually occupies more space? > > AMD64 normally aligns to 16 Bytes. So does powerpc.