> 
> Current releases of NetBSD are configured not to abort the above, but to 
> use a load-and-rotate type of operation, so in the above func2 would print 
> the value contained by loading (*p & ~3) rotated by 8 bits.

Erm, I've put the parenthesis in the wrong place.  On a little-endian 
processor the operation would be:

	rotate_right (*(p & ~3), 8)

R.