ELF sections allow 0 for the alignment, which is specified to be the same as 1. However many clients do not expect this and will behave poorly in the presence of a 0-aligned section (for
example by trying to modulo something by the section alignment). We can be more polite by making sure that we always pass a non-zero value to clients.
This was discovered when running the LLDB test suite on Linux with a debug build of LLDB / LLVM, and we had several hundred failures do an assertion triggering in MathExtras.h where we tried to call llvm::alignTo(Size, Align=0, ...).
I don't really know this code at all, so I'm not sure if the problem is that the JIT was generating a 0-align section in the first place, but this does at least faithfully match the ELF spec, while also fixing all of the bugs in LLDB's test suite.