/**
 * These lines of codes were obtained from Debian package linux-kernel-headers
 * and adapted by Micha Lenk <micha@lenk.info> to meet the needs of
 * nictools-pci. The package linux-kernel-headers in turn obtained the sources
 * via BitKeeper from: bk://linux.bkbits.net/linux-2.5, and kernel.org mirrors
 * under the terms of the GPL license.
 */

#ifndef __UNALIGNED_H
#define __UNALIGNED_H

/**
 * get_unaligned - get value from possibly mis-aligned location
 * @ptr: pointer to value
 *
 * This macro should be used for accessing values larger in size than 
 * single bytes at locations that are expected to be improperly aligned, 
 * e.g. retrieving a u16 value from a location not u16-aligned.
 *
 * Note that unaligned accesses can be very expensive on some architectures.
 */
#define get_unaligned(ptr) (*(ptr))

/**
 * put_unaligned - put value to a possibly mis-aligned location
 * @val: value to place
 * @ptr: pointer to location
 *
 * 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.
 */
#define put_unaligned(val, ptr) ((void)( *(ptr) = (val) ))

#endif