+/*
+ * The processor doesn't natively handle unaligned loads.
+ */
+#ifdef HAVE___ATTRIBUTE__
+/*
+ * We have __attribute__; we assume that means we have __attribute__((packed)).
+ * Declare packed structures containing a u_int16_t and a u_int32_t,
+ * 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.
+ *
+ * We do this in case the compiler can generate, for this instruction set,
+ * better code to do an unaligned load and pass stuff to "ntohs()" or
+ * "ntohl()" than the code to fetch the bytes one at a time and
+ * assemble them. (That might not be the case on a little-endian platform,
+ * where "ntohs()" and "ntohl()" might not be done inline.)
+ */
+typedef struct {
+ u_int16_t val;
+} __attribute__((packed)) unaligned_u_int16_t;
+
+typedef struct {
+ u_int32_t val;
+} __attribute__((packed)) unaligned_u_int32_t;
+