[bug-mes] Aligner pseudo-instruction

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi Jeremiah,
Hi Jan,

on ARM (and many other architectures) it is customary to also pad data 
structures in order to align members.  I don't see any mechanism in hex2 
(and/or M1 - probably not) in order to be able to force alignment at the 
current position.  It would be easy to add such a thing, it would just be some 
pseudo-instruction that would do the following (example for 4 Byte alignment):

   while (output_position & 3) {
      fputc('\x00', stdout);
      output_position += 1;
   }

On ARM, "alignment" is meant in a very low-level way, "least significant bits 
of the address == 0".

Could we add one?

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