Comment 1 for bug 923397

Thank you for the bug report. I've confirmed this with gcc-linaro-4.6-2012.01 on ARM:

asa-san@ursa4:~/bugs/alignment$ ~/bench/cbuild/slaves/ursa4/gcc-linaro-4.6-2012.01/gcc-binary/bin/gcc -c example.c
asa-san@ursa4:~/bugs/alignment$ readelf -t example.o
There are 11 section headers, starting at offset 0x108:

Section Headers:
  [Nr] Name
       Type Addr Off Size ES Lk Inf Al
       Flags
...
  [ 4] .rodata
       PROGBITS 00000000 000034 000004 00 0 0 4
       [00000002]: ALLOC
...

The work-around, as stated in the ticket, is to specify the size of the array.

The fault also exists in a late revisions of FSF trunk (gcc-4.7~svn183205).
The fault does not exist in gcc-linaro-4.5-2012.01.
The fault did not exist in gcc-linaro-4.6-2011.12. Investigation is needed to decide in which revision of gcc-linaro-4.6 the fault was introduced.

I've set it to medium priority for now, since there is a work around.