- * If possible, pack the following structure to byte alignment, since we
- * don't care about performance for debug output
+ * If possible, pack the following structures to byte alignment, since we
+ * don't care about performance for debug output. Two cases where we cannot
+ * pack the structures:
+ *
+ * 1) Hardware does not support misaligned memory transfers
+ * 2) Compiler does not support pointers within packed structures