get_unaligned(9)
NAME
- get_unaligned - get value from possibly mis-aligned loca
- tion
SYNOPSIS
get_unaligned(ptr);
ARGUMENTS
- ptr
- pointer to value
DESCRIPTION
- This macro should be used for accessing values larger in
- size than single bytes at locations that are expected to be im
- properly aligned, e.g. retrieving a u16 value from a location not
- u16-aligned.
- Note that unaligned accesses can be very expensive on some
- architectures.