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ALIGNCONFLICT1

Message        <Context> the address "<expr>" has alignment of
               <align> which is less than the alignment requirements
               of the pointer type it is cast to.  Dereferencing the
               resulting pointer may cause an alignment fault.

Description    The compiler has detected a situation where an
               address is being cast to a pointer type with a
               greater alignment requirement than the type of the
               address expression implies.  A later dereference of
               this pointer type value could cause an alignment
               fault.

User Action    There are a number of possible actions.  The best is
               to correct the condition that is causing the source
               to have the wrong alignment, as access to an
               unaligned data structure involves additional run-time
               overhead.  Other options would be to change the type
               of the pointer used in the cast such that its
               referenced type has the __unaligned type qualifier,
               or use the compiler option that tells the compiler to
               assume all pointer references are unaligned.  It is
               also possible to cast the address expression to (void
               *) before casting it to the specified type to silence
               this message.  However, that solution will not
               correct any unaligned access.