overhead of bfd_{get,put}*()

[David Miller]

From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:55:59 +0000 (UTC)

> What you can do is something along the lines of: if GCC, load using a 
> packed structure type; leave it to the GCC target to know what 
> instructions are OK for such a load.

I'm on sparc which requires alignment so this won't help me at
all.  It's going to emit the same ugly song and dance of byte
loads and shift/ors we use right now.