Alignments are stored in a byte, large alignments don't actually work nicely.  
This caps the alignment to 128, as most ports would define BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT to 
be smaller than this.  The competing change would to be to make it a short, 
but, I'd be happy to punt that until such time as someone actually needs that.

Ports break down this way currently:

  12 #define BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT 64
  10 #define BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT 32
   6 #define BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT 128
   3 #define BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT 8
   8 #define BIGGEST_ALIGNMENT 16

Ok?

diff --git a/gcc/genmodes.c b/gcc/genmodes.c
index b4dc0d2..8f4980c 100644
--- a/gcc/genmodes.c
+++ b/gcc/genmodes.c
@@ -1178,7 +1178,7 @@ emit_mode_base_align (void)
                          alignment);
 
   for_all_modes (c, m)
-    tagged_printf ("%u", m->alignment, m->name);
+    tagged_printf ("%u", m->alignment > 128 ? 128 : m->alignment, m->name);
 
   print_closer ();
 }

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