im confused..

[dedndave]

the segments are probably paragraph-aligned

and, yes, - i try to arrange my global data area so aligned items preceed don't-care things like strings

you can also use the ALIGN directive, for example...

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        ALIGN   4
it's somewhat similar to the EVEN directive in days of old   :P

when you get to writing SSE code, some things require 64-alignment (i think that's right)

[hutch--]

Some of the SSE instructions require 16 BYTE memory alignment and they crash if the memory is not aligned correctly.