16 byte alignment

[Shahid]

I made the Following change to backend/elfobj.c
I have no idea what I just did but it has solved my problem
Could anyone explain?

-- align16.patch --

diff --u a/src/backend/elfobj.c b/src/backend/elfobj.c
--- a/src/backend/elfobj.c
+++ b/src/backend/elfobj.c
@@ -683,7 +683,7 @@ void obj_init(Outbuffer *objbuf, const char *filename, const char *csegname)
         elf_newsection2(0,               SHT_NULL,   0,                 0,0,0,0,0, 0,0);
         elf_newsection2(NAMIDX_TEXT,SHT_PROGDEF,SHF_ALLOC|SHF_EXECINSTR,0,0,0,0,0, 4,0);
         elf_newsection2(NAMIDX_RELTEXT,SHT_RELA, 0,0,0,0,SHI_SYMTAB,     SHI_TEXT, 8,0x18);
-        elf_newsection2(NAMIDX_DATA,SHT_PROGDEF,SHF_ALLOC|SHF_WRITE,    0,0,0,0,0, 8,0);
+        elf_newsection2(NAMIDX_DATA,SHT_PROGDEF,SHF_ALLOC|SHF_WRITE,    0,0,0,0,0, 16,0);
         elf_newsection2(NAMIDX_RELDATA64,SHT_RELA, 0,0,0,0,SHI_SYMTAB,   SHI_DATA, 8,0x18);
         elf_newsection2(NAMIDX_BSS, SHT_NOBITS,SHF_ALLOC|SHF_WRITE,     0,0,0,0,0, 16,0);
         elf_newsection2(NAMIDX_RODATA,SHT_PROGDEF,SHF_ALLOC,            0,0,0,0,0, 16,0);