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is defined, the bus_space macros will check to ensure that the bus address and the target buffer (if applicable) are aligned properly for the size of the type being used. If they are not, a message will be displayed on the console. While strict alignment is not strictly necessary on the x86, ensuring proper alignment can aid performance, and help make drivers more portable to architectures (like the Alpha and StrongARM) which _do_ require strict alignment.