RISC-V .align 3 - bug or feature?

[Schweikhardt, Jens (TSPCE3-TL4)]

hello world\n

I'm looking at https://git.rtems.org/rtems/tree/bsps/riscv/shared/start/start.S  which contains near the end

                /* Wait for go issued by the boot processor (mhartid == 0) */
                LADDR  t0, .Lsecondary_processor_go

.Lwait_for_go_again:

                lw           t1, 0(t0)
                fence    iorw, iorw
                bnez      t1, .Lwait_for_go_again

                mv         a0, s1
                call         bsp_start_on_secondary_processor

#if __riscv_xlen == 32
                .align     2
#elif __riscv_xlen == 64
                .align     3                        <------------ Interesting.
#endif

.Lsecondary_processor_go:

                /*
                * These are ebreak instructions, just in case we end up here executing
                * code.
                */
                .word    0x00100073
#if __riscv_xlen == 64
                .word    0x00100073
#endif

I've never come across a situation where I would want alignment 3 on a 64bit CPU.
Is this alignment intended? Is it the base 2 log?

Jens Schweikhardt
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