alignment issues uncovered by -Wcast-align

[TeeEmJee]

Hey, I was wondering whether you are planning to change the loader in order to use proper c++ style code ( no c-like casting, more std library use etc.)?

I am dealing with many warnings on my project through the loader and some of them might become dangerous in special use cases I guess.

Unfortunately I have not enough knowledge about the code otherwise I would to that on my own.

[paroj]

Hey, I was wondering whether you are planning to change the loader in order to use proper c++ style code ( no c-like casting, more std library use etc.)?

no. those would be purely cosmetic.

the only exception I see are alignment issues (enabled by -Wcast-align) on ARM architectures. (they work correctly on x86)

However those are deep in the bit-twiddling code where changes would require throughout testing.
Contributions are welcome here.

[TeeEmJee]

Okay thank's for that answer! I use the library in my C++ project and I get a few warnings about the old c-style casts and as you already mentioned about possible alignment issues. I thought it would become handy to solve these.
But I did not find a bug so it's just a matter of style I guess.