[CFR] mge driver / elf reloc

[John-Mark Gurney]

Tim Kientzle wrote this message on Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 15:25 -0700:
> 
> On Jul 20, 2014, at 3:05 PM, John-Mark Gurney <jmg at funkthat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Ian Lepore wrote this message on Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 16:54 -0600:
> >> Sorry to take so long to reply to this, I'm trying to get caught up.  I
> >> see you've already committed the mge fixes.  I think the ELF alignment
> >> fix looks good and should also be committed.
> > 
> > So, re the elf alignment...
> > 
> > I think we should get a set of macros that handle load/stores to/from
> > unaligned addresses that are transparent to the caller....  I need
> > these for some other code I'm writing... 
> > 
> > I thought Open/Net had these available, but I can't seem to find them
> > right now...
> 
> $ man 9 byteorder
> 
> is most of what you want, lacking only some aliases to pick
> the correct macro for native byte order.

Um, those doesn't help if you want native endian order...

Also, only the enc/dec functions are documented to work on non-aligned
address, so that doesn't help in most cases...

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