Re: [RFC] typechecking for get_unaligned/put_unaligned

Al Viro <[email protected]> wrote:

> 	* sizeof(*ptr) should be one of 1, 2, 4, 8

Should we give an error if someone tries passing a 1-byte-sized memory location
to get/put_unaligned()?  I suspect it might be best to reduce to a trivial
direct assignment in that case.

David
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