Fix typos in Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt
This patch deletes a couple of superfluous word occurrences in the document Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt. Thanks to Sebastien Dugue for the remark about English usage. Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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unaligned access to be corrected.
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unaligned access to be corrected.
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- Some architectures are not capable of unaligned memory access, but will
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- Some architectures are not capable of unaligned memory access, but will
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silently perform a different memory access to the one that was requested,
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silently perform a different memory access to the one that was requested,
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resulting a a subtle code bug that is hard to detect!
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resulting in a subtle code bug that is hard to detect!
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It should be obvious from the above that if your code causes unaligned
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It should be obvious from the above that if your code causes unaligned
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memory accesses to happen, your code will not work correctly on certain
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memory accesses to happen, your code will not work correctly on certain
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u32 value = get_unaligned((u32 *) data);
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u32 value = get_unaligned((u32 *) data);
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These macros work work for memory accesses of any length (not just 32 bits as
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These macros work for memory accesses of any length (not just 32 bits as
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in the examples above). Be aware that when compared to standard access of
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in the examples above). Be aware that when compared to standard access of
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aligned memory, using these macros to access unaligned memory can be costly in
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aligned memory, using these macros to access unaligned memory can be costly in
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terms of performance.
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terms of performance.
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