unaligned access to be corrected.
- Some architectures are not capable of unaligned memory access, but will
silently perform a different memory access to the one that was requested,
- resulting a a subtle code bug that is hard to detect!
+ resulting in a subtle code bug that is hard to detect!
It should be obvious from the above that if your code causes unaligned
memory accesses to happen, your code will not work correctly on certain
u32 value = get_unaligned((u32 *) data);
-These macros work work for memory accesses of any length (not just 32 bits as
+These macros work for memory accesses of any length (not just 32 bits as
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.