Hi, this is the split out part from the "Fix not 8-byte aligned ldrd/strd on ARMv5 (PR 89544)" which is sanitizing the middle-end interface to the back-end for strict alignment, and a couple of bug-fixes that are necessary to survive boot-strap. It is intended to be applied after the PR 89544 fix. I think it would be possible to change the default implementation of STACK_SLOT_ALIGNMENT to make all stack variables always naturally aligned instead of doing that only in assign_parm_setup_stack, but would still like to avoid changing too many things that do not seem to have a problem. Since this would affect many targets, and more kinds of variables that may probably not have a strict alignment problem. But I am ready to take your advice though. Boot-strapped and reg-tested on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu and arm-linux-gnueabihf Is it OK for trunk? Thanks Bernd.