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<p>You can increase an output section&rsquo;s alignment by using ALIGN.  As an
alternative you can force the output section alignment to the maximum alignment
of all its input sections with ALIGN_WITH_INPUT.  The alignment forced by
ALIGN_WITH_INPUT is used even in case the load and virtual memory regions are
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