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SubjectRe: [PATCH] or51132.c: unaligned
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 05:55:38PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > > + return buf[0] | (buf[1] << 8);
> > >
> > > return get_unaligned_le16(buf);
> >
> > And the point of that would be?
>
> Perhaps better code generation?

FWIW, I wonder how they really compare on misaligned and whether it would
make sense for gcc to try and generate a single load on targets that are
known to allow that...

Hell knows; I still find explicit variant more readable in this case and
AFAICS it's not a critical path...


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