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Subject: Re: [CFR] mge driver / elf reloc
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On Jul 20, 2014, at 3:05 PM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> wrote:

> Ian Lepore wrote this message on Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 16:54 -0600:
>> Sorry to take so long to reply to this, I'm trying to get caught up.  I
>> see you've already committed the mge fixes.  I think the ELF alignment
>> fix looks good and should also be committed.
> 
> So, re the elf alignment...
> 
> I think we should get a set of macros that handle load/stores to/from
> unaligned addresses that are transparent to the caller....  I need
> these for some other code I'm writing... 
> 
> I thought Open/Net had these available, but I can't seem to find them
> right now...

$ man 9 byteorder

is most of what you want, lacking only some aliases to pick
the correct macro for native byte order.

Tim