That better be marked "historical". At least, Lemire says:
On recent Intel and 64-bit ARM processors, data alignment does not make processing a lot faster. It is a micro-optimization. Data alignment for speed is a myth. // https://lemire.me/blog/2012/05/31/data-alignment-for-speed-m...
(while in the olden days, a program may crash on unaligned access, esp on RISC)
Don't mix up what processors do with what the C standard allows you to get away with.