trylink: produce even more info about final link stage
trylink: explain how to modify link and drastically decrease amount
  of padding (unfortunately, needs hand editing ATM).
*: add ALIGN1 / ALIGN2 to global strings and arrays of bytes and shorts

size saving: 0.5k

diff --git a/util-linux/fdisk.c b/util-linux/fdisk.c
index 0a8dbe9..2933db4 100644
--- a/util-linux/fdisk.c
+++ b/util-linux/fdisk.c
@@ -48,12 +48,12 @@
 
 #define HDIO_GETGEO     0x0301  /* get device geometry */
 
-static const char msg_building_new_label[] =
+static const char msg_building_new_label[] ALIGN1 =
 "Building a new %s. Changes will remain in memory only,\n"
 "until you decide to write them. After that the previous content\n"
 "won't be recoverable.\n\n";
 
-static const char msg_part_already_defined[] =
+static const char msg_part_already_defined[] ALIGN1 =
 "Partition %d is already defined, delete it before re-adding\n";
 
 
@@ -82,11 +82,11 @@
 	unsigned char size4[4];         /* nr of sectors in partition */
 } ATTRIBUTE_PACKED;
 
-static const char unable_to_open[] = "cannot open %s";
-static const char unable_to_read[] = "cannot read from %s";
-static const char unable_to_seek[] = "cannot seek on %s";
-static const char unable_to_write[] = "cannot write to %s";
-static const char ioctl_error[] = "BLKGETSIZE ioctl failed on %s";
+static const char unable_to_open[] ALIGN1 = "cannot open %s";
+static const char unable_to_read[] ALIGN1 = "cannot read from %s";
+static const char unable_to_seek[] ALIGN1 = "cannot seek on %s";
+static const char unable_to_write[] ALIGN1 = "cannot write to %s";
+static const char ioctl_error[] ALIGN1 = "BLKGETSIZE ioctl failed on %s";
 static void fdisk_fatal(const char *why) ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN;
 
 enum label_type {
diff --git a/util-linux/fdisk_osf.c b/util-linux/fdisk_osf.c
index 9f0dc7f..f6486d5 100644
--- a/util-linux/fdisk_osf.c
+++ b/util-linux/fdisk_osf.c
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@
 #define BSD_DSTYPE_DOSPART(s)   ((s) & 3)       /* dos partition number */
 #define BSD_DSTYPE_GEOMETRY     0x10            /* drive params in label */
 
-static const char * const xbsd_dktypenames[] = {
+static const char *const xbsd_dktypenames[] = {
 	"unknown",
 	"SMD",
 	"MSCP",
diff --git a/util-linux/getopt.c b/util-linux/getopt.c
index 41299d2..2460170 100644
--- a/util-linux/getopt.c
+++ b/util-linux/getopt.c
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@
  */
 
 #if ENABLE_GETOPT_LONG
-static const char getopt_longopts[] =
+static const char getopt_longopts[] ALIGN1 =
 	"options\0"      Required_argument "o"
 	"longoptions\0"  Required_argument "l"
 	"quiet\0"        No_argument       "q"
diff --git a/util-linux/hexdump.c b/util-linux/hexdump.c
index 213f607..e294f19 100644
--- a/util-linux/hexdump.c
+++ b/util-linux/hexdump.c
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 	fclose(fp);
 }
 
-static const char * const add_strings[] = {
+static const char *const add_strings[] = {
 	"\"%07.7_ax \" 16/1 \"%03o \" \"\\n\"",		/* b */
 	"\"%07.7_ax \" 16/1 \"%3_c \" \"\\n\"",		/* c */
 	"\"%07.7_ax \" 8/2 \"  %05u \" \"\\n\"",	/* d */
@@ -43,9 +43,9 @@
 	"\"%07.7_ax \" 8/2 \"   %04x \" \"\\n\"",	/* x */
 };
 
-static const char add_first[] = "\"%07.7_Ax\n\"";
+static const char add_first[] ALIGN1 = "\"%07.7_Ax\n\"";
 
-static const char hexdump_opts[] = "bcdoxCe:f:n:s:v";
+static const char hexdump_opts[] ALIGN1 = "bcdoxCe:f:n:s:v";
 
 static const struct suffix_mult suffixes[] = {
 	{ "b", 512 },
diff --git a/util-linux/hwclock.c b/util-linux/hwclock.c
index ede95ec..8677214 100644
--- a/util-linux/hwclock.c
+++ b/util-linux/hwclock.c
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@
 	int utc;
 
 #if ENABLE_FEATURE_HWCLOCK_LONG_OPTIONS
-	static const char hwclock_longopts[] =
+	static const char hwclock_longopts[] ALIGN1 =
 		"localtime\0" No_argument "l"
 		"utc\0"       No_argument "u"
 		"show\0"      No_argument "r"
diff --git a/util-linux/mdev.c b/util-linux/mdev.c
index 17e5e88..33dc5d3 100644
--- a/util-linux/mdev.c
+++ b/util-linux/mdev.c
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@
  * - userspace writes "0" (worked) or "-1" (failed) to /sys/$DEVPATH/loading
  * - kernel loads firmware into device
  */
-static inline void load_firmware(const char * const firmware, const char * const sysfs_path)
+static void load_firmware(const char *const firmware, const char *const sysfs_path)
 {
 	int cnt;
 	int firmware_fd, loading_fd, data_fd;
diff --git a/util-linux/mount.c b/util-linux/mount.c
index a7b0a98..c159f41 100644
--- a/util-linux/mount.c
+++ b/util-linux/mount.c
@@ -888,7 +888,7 @@
 	if (filteropts)	for (opt = strtok(filteropts, ","); opt; opt = strtok(NULL, ",")) {
 		char *opteq = strchr(opt, '=');
 		if (opteq) {
-			static const char options[] =
+			static const char options[] ALIGN1 =
 				/* 0 */ "rsize\0"
 				/* 1 */ "wsize\0"
 				/* 2 */ "timeo\0"
@@ -991,7 +991,7 @@
 			}
 		}
 		else {
-			static const char options[] =
+			static const char options[] ALIGN1 =
 				"bg\0"
 				"fg\0"
 				"soft\0"
@@ -1524,7 +1524,7 @@
 // Parse options, if necessary parse fstab/mtab, and call singlemount for
 // each directory to be mounted.
 
-static const char must_be_root[] = "you must be root";
+static const char must_be_root[] ALIGN1 = "you must be root";
 
 int mount_main(int argc, char **argv);
 int mount_main(int argc, char **argv)
diff --git a/util-linux/readprofile.c b/util-linux/readprofile.c
index 02afedc..347621c 100644
--- a/util-linux/readprofile.c
+++ b/util-linux/readprofile.c
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@
 #define S_LEN 128
 
 /* These are the defaults */
-static const char defaultmap[] = "/boot/System.map";
-static const char defaultpro[] = "/proc/profile";
+static const char defaultmap[] ALIGN1 = "/boot/System.map";
+static const char defaultpro[] ALIGN1 = "/proc/profile";
 
 int readprofile_main(int argc, char **argv);
 int readprofile_main(int argc, char **argv)