[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Oh bother, you're right of course.  We need some kind of standardized
> macro for indirecting through a potentially unaligned pointer.  It can
> just do the dereference (e.g. x86), use left/right accesses (e.g. MIPS),
> or do it by byte (others).
> 
> Ports people, what do you think?
> 

My, my, my... I'm really 100% alert this morning.  Before anyone clues me
in, I did find <asm/unaligned.h> when I actually bothered looking.  New
patch in the making.

        -hpa

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