* cast the pointer to point to one of those, and fetch through it;
* the GCC manual doesn't appear to explicitly say that
* __attribute__((packed)) causes the compiler to generate unaligned-safe
- * code, but it apppears to do so.
+ * code, but it appears to do so.
*
* We do this in case the compiler can generate code using those
* instructions to do an unaligned load and pass stuff to "ntohs()" or