About address alignment of unicode string data

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About address alignment of unicode string data
\ Lu, Ken (30 Mar 2007)

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Subject:	About address alignment of unicode string data
Group:	Gcc-help
From:	Lu, Ken
Date:	30 Mar 2007

Hello:
I have question about GCC which is in different behavior with MS VC.
See following code:
wchar_t *TestStr = L"MyString";
If built by MSVC, the address TestStr would align at 16-bit boundary
that mean TestStr's address is even. Because the data of L"MyString" is
unicode code string.
But if build by GCC, the address of TestStr is even or odd but not
always even.
I have tried many GCC compiler options but seems not compiler
options can make the address of TestStr align to even address. My GCC
version is 4.0.2.

Who can tell me how to control the alignment of const Unicode data
L"" in GCC?
Thanks.

- K

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