+#ifdef LBL_ALIGN
+/*
+ * The processor doesn't natively handle unaligned loads,
+ * and the compiler might "helpfully" optimize memcpy()
+ * and memcmp(), when handed pointers that would normally
+ * be properly aligned, into sequences that assume proper
+ * alignment.
+ *
+ * Do copies and compares of possibly-unaligned data by
+ * calling routines that wrap memcpy() and memcmp(), to
+ * prevent that optimization.
+ */
+extern void unaligned_memcpy(void *, const void *, size_t);
+extern int unaligned_memcmp(const void *, const void *, size_t);
+#define UNALIGNED_MEMCPY(p, q, l) unaligned_memcpy((p), (q), (l))
+#define UNALIGNED_MEMCMP(p, q, l) unaligned_memcmp((p), (q), (l))
+#else
+/*
+ * The procesor natively handles unaligned loads, so just use memcpy()
+ * and memcmp(), to enable those optimizations.
+ */
+#define UNALIGNED_MEMCPY(p, q, l) memcpy((p), (q), (l))
+#define UNALIGNED_MEMCMP(p, q, l) memcmp((p), (q), (l))
+#endif
+