Un-alignment in structures

[Tim Maroney]

It is not accurate to say that the VAX has no alignment restrictions.  While
a VAX can handle unaligned data, the performance penalty for doing so is
significant.  Aligned data is almost always what you want.

Nevertheless, it wouldn't have killed the PCC-porters to include a
command-line compiler option to turn off alignment for those rare cases when
external unaligned data formats have to be matched....
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