Re: [PATCH] Define hash_mem in lib/hash.c to apply hash_long to an

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Neil Brown wrote:
> +	if (unlikely(IsLongAligned(buf))) {
> +
> +		/* Some architectures don't like dereferencing a long
> +		 * pointer that isn't aligned, so we do it by hand...
> +		 */
> +		while (len >= BYTES_PER_LONG) {
> +			memcpy(&l, buf, BYTES_PER_LONG);

Ugh. What a crock.

This is what we have "get_unaligned()" for.

		Linus