title: What is align in memory sections of an object file?
body: <p>I was using objdump here, and using the -x flag, I saw that the sections were with some 2 ** 0. What would somebody be? Has any practical effect on this align</p>
  
  <pre><code>#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
  
  int main(void) {
      char *x = "section"; // .rodata algn 2**0 
      return 0;
  }
  </code></pre>