Wrong section alignments on linux ELF cause linking problems

We wanted to use the LLVM LLD linker, but it complains about an incorrect section alignment emitted by ICPC. Here is my corresponding bug report to LLVM: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35854 . It turns out the bug apparently is within the Intel Compiler. Quoting my bugreport:

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I would like to raise this as a feature request for compatibility with GNU LD: LD supports unaligned sections in object files, which are created at least by the Intel ICC compiler and prevents us to adopt LLD in our build.

   ld: error: .../_moc_mainwindow.o: unaligned data

Further investigation shows

   ~/usr/bin/llvm-readelf -relocations _moc_mainwindow.o

    Relocation section '.rel.data' at offset 0x2546f contains 1 entries:
     Offset     Info    Type                Sym. Value  Symbol's Name

    Error reading file: unaligned data
    .

This works with GNU LD and GNU GOLD

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ICC Version:

icpc (ICC) 15.0.3 20150407

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