Re: RFC: New userspace fetch/store API

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

> On Feb 24, 2019, at 8:22 AM, David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Given that the predominant use of these is to fetch from user-supplied
> pointers, which can be crap, it would best to include an alignment
> check; otherwise ~all call sites will require explicit checks, which
> in addition to being error-prone start running into annoying
> portability questions.

Great suggestion, and you know, this gives me an idea — the arch-specific back-ends can get a different name, and the API contract logic like this can go in subr_copy.c, along with the convenience aliases that I wanted to do originally.

-- thorpej