and address() macros with new macros of the same names (to get values),
and macros with those names but with "set" prepended and which take a
second argument (to set values). The new macros use type casts to do
type conversion, which is much cleaner than using a union and making
endianness-related hacks to get the right 'short's and 'char's from
the right array indices. (YUCK! again, for good measure.)
christos