Examples of errors detected by the V1032 diagnostic

V1032. Pointer is cast to a more strictly aligned pointer type.

FreeCAD

V1032 [CWE-843, CERT-EXP36-C] The pointer 'auiResult' is cast to a more strictly aligned pointer type. Wm4TRational.inl 742

template <int N>
void TRational<N>::ConvertTo (double& rdValue) const
{
  assert(m_kDenom != 0);
  if (m_kNumer == 0)
  {
    rdValue = 0.0;
    return;
  }

  unsigned int auiResult[2];
  ....
  rdValue = *(double*)auiResult;
  ....
}

qdEngine

V1032 [CWE-843, CERT-EXP36-C] The pointer 'buf' is cast to a more strictly aligned pointer type. zip_container.cpp 237

bool zipContainer::find_index()
{
  const int buf_sz = 1024;
  char buf[buf_sz];

  stream_.seek(0,XS_END);

  while(stream_.tell() >= buf_sz){
    stream_.seek(-buf_sz,XS_CUR);
    stream_.read(buf,buf_sz);

    const unsigned long idx_signature = 0x06054b50L;

    for(int i = 0; i < buf_sz - sizeof(long) * 3; i++){
      if(*((unsigned long*)(buf + i)) == idx_signature){
        XBuffer xbuf(buf + i + sizeof(long) + sizeof(unsigned short) * 4,
                     sizeof(long) * 2);
        xbuf > index_size_ > index_offset_;
        return true;
      }
    }
  }

  return false;
}