On 16:11 Mon 03 Dec 2007, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Here's a document I wrote after figuring out what unaligned memory access
> is all about. I've tried to cover the information I was looking for when
> trying to learn about this, without producing a hopelessly detailed/complex
> spew. I hope it is useful to others.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <[email protected]>
>
> ---
<snip>
> +These macros work work for memory accesses of any length (not just 32 bits as
Remove a "work" here.
> +in the examples above). Be aware that when compared to standard access of
> +aligned memory, using these macros to access unaligned memory can be costly in
> +terms of performance.
> +
> +If use of such macros is not convenient, another option is to use memcpy(),
> +where the source or destination (or both) are of type u8* or unsigned char*.
> +Due to the byte-wise nature of this operation, unaligned accesses are avoided.
Cheers,
Brandon
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