gcc creates 'strd' instructions which are accessing non-double-word
aligned addresses. This is forbidden accordingly ARM Reference Manual
and causes an alignment exception:

| 10.6.14 STRD
| However, the address of the first of the two words is required to be
| doubleword-aligned (that is, the address must be divisible by 8).



Example:
------------
$ cat foo.c
struct A {
        unsigned int            a;
        unsigned long long      l;
};

int main()
{
        extern struct A volatile        *a;
        a->l = 0;
}

$ arm-xscale-linux-gnu-gcc -c -Os -mabi=aapcs -march=armv5te ./foo.c
$ objdump -d foo.o 

foo.o:     file format elf32-littlearm

Disassembly of section .text:

00000000 <main>:
   0:   e59f3010        ldr     r3, [pc, #16]   ; 18 <.text+0x18>
   4:   e3a00000        mov     r0, #0  ; 0x0
   8:   e5933000        ldr     r3, [r3]
   c:   e3a01000        mov     r1, #0  ; 0x0
  10:   e1c300f8        strd    r0, [r3, #8]
  14:   e12fff1e        bx      lr
  18:   00000000        andeq   r0, r0, r0

------------


AAPCS requires only a 4-Byte alignment for data pointers, so the
external 'a' might point to a non-8 divisible address. The resulting
address at 10: is non-8 divisible too and will cause an alignment
exception.

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$ $C-gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: arm-xscale-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --build=i686-redhat-linux-gnu --host=i686-redhat-linux-gnu --target=arm-xscale-linux-gnu --with-sysroot=/usr/arm-xscale-linux-gnu/sys-root --disable-__cxa_atexit --enable-target-optspace --with-gnu-ld --disable-nls --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --enable-languages=c,c++,java,objc --enable-shared --enable-threads --disable-multilib --with-cpu=xscale --enable-cxx-flags=-mcpu=xscale -fomit-frame-pointer
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.0