I'm developing a application that requires contiguous memory for statically initialized byte arrays.  The arrays are 
declared similar to:

const unsigned char bit_data[BIT_DATA_SIZE] __attribute__((aligned(64))) = 
{
    ##, ##, ##, ….
};

I obtain a physical memory address for this data to use with the embedded hardware using the mem_offset() function.  The
 returned physical address is correct but the data is not contiguous in physical memory.

Allocating a contiguous block using mmap() and copying the data doubles up the RAM utilization which is not desired 
(since i cannot "free" the original static array).  The static arrays are auto-generated and contain uncompressed image 
data.  The size of the static array can be very large (over a megabyte).

Is there any way to force the static data to be contiguous in the application?

Thanks!

Jim