Re: [PATCH 2/2] bswap: add NO_UNALIGNED_LOADS define

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On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 1:36 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The byte-swapping code automatically decides, based on the
> platform, whether it is sensible to cast an do a potentially

s/an/and/ or something?

> unaligned ntohl(), or to pick individual bytes out of an
> array.
>
> It can be handy to override this decision, though, when
> turning on compiler flags that will complain about unaligned
> loads (such as -fsanitize=undefined). This patch adds a
> macro check to make this possible.
>
> There's no nice Makefile knob here; this is for prodding at
> Git's internals, and anybody using it can set
> "-DNO_UNALIGNED_LOADS" in the same place they are setting up
> "-fsanitize".
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx>
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