PUT_UNALIGNED
Section: (9)
Updated: 09 April 2004
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NAME
put_unaligned - put value to a possibly mis-aligned location
SYNOPSIS
put_unaligned ( val, ptr);
ARGUMENTS
- val
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value to place
- ptr
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pointer to location
DESCRIPTION
This macro should be used for placing values larger in size than
single bytes at locations that are expected to be improperly aligned,
e.g. writing a u16 value to a location not u16-aligned.
Note that unaligned accesses can be very expensive on some architectures.
ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT
This documentation was generated with kernel version 2.6.0.
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