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>>> So what do you think about removing the alignments, for structure
>>> members and stack parameters ? Does it break some compatibility ?
> 
> Alignment is part of the ABI.  If you change it you are creating an
> incompatible ABI.

OK.
There is a well-known ABI for calling TOS/MiNT.
But is there a standard ABI for internal data structures alignment, as 
well as function calls, eventually across the static libraries ?
Is GCC 2.95 the de-facto standard ?

Vincent