REF: https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3542

C prohibits not only dereferencing but also casting to unaligned
pointers. Thus, the current set of unaligned APIs cannot be called
safely. Update their prototypes to take VOID * pointers, which must
be able to represent any valid pointer.

Cc: Bob Feng <bob.c.feng@...>
Cc: Liming Gao <gaoliming@...>
Cc: Yuwei Chen <yuwei.chen@...>
Cc: Vitaly Cheptsov <vit9696@...>
Signed-off-by: Marvin Häuser <mhaeuser@...>
---
BaseTools/Source/C/Common/CommonLib.c | 16 ++++++++--------
BaseTools/Source/C/Common/CommonLib.h | 8 ++++----
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/BaseTools/Source/C/Common/CommonLib.c b/BaseTools/Source/C/Common/CommonLib.c
index 7fb4ab764fcd..f1223fb2ae0a 100644
--- a/BaseTools/Source/C/Common/CommonLib.c
+++ b/BaseTools/Source/C/Common/CommonLib.c
@@ -1154,23 +1154,23 @@ StrSize (

UINT64
ReadUnaligned64 (
- CONST UINT64 *Buffer
+ CONST VOID *Buffer
)
{
ASSERT (Buffer != NULL);

- return *Buffer;
+ return *(CONST UINT64 *) Buffer;
}

UINT64
WriteUnaligned64 (
- UINT64 *Buffer,
+ VOID *Buffer,
UINT64 Value
)
{
ASSERT (Buffer != NULL);

- return *Buffer = Value;
+ return *(UINT64 *) Buffer = Value;
}


@@ -2018,23 +2018,23 @@ AllocatePool (

UINT16
WriteUnaligned16 (
- UINT16 *Buffer,
+ VOID *Buffer,
UINT16 Value
)
{
ASSERT (Buffer != NULL);

- return *Buffer = Value;
+ return *(UINT16 *) Buffer = Value;
}

UINT16
ReadUnaligned16 (
- CONST UINT16 *Buffer
+ CONST VOID *Buffer
)
{
ASSERT (Buffer != NULL);

- return *Buffer;
+ return *(CONST UINT16 *) Buffer;
}
/**
Return whether the integer string is a hex string.
diff --git a/BaseTools/Source/C/Common/CommonLib.h b/BaseTools/Source/C/Common/CommonLib.h
index 0f05d88db206..67c42a91765d 100644
--- a/BaseTools/Source/C/Common/CommonLib.h
+++ b/BaseTools/Source/C/Common/CommonLib.h
@@ -238,13 +238,13 @@ CopyGuid (

UINT64
WriteUnaligned64 (
- UINT64 *Buffer,
+ VOID *Buffer,
UINT64 Value
);

UINT64
ReadUnaligned64 (
- CONST UINT64 *Buffer
+ CONST VOID *Buffer
);

UINTN
@@ -363,13 +363,13 @@ AllocatePool (

UINT16
WriteUnaligned16 (
- UINT16 *Buffer,
+ VOID *Buffer,
UINT16 Value
);

UINT16
ReadUnaligned16 (
- CONST UINT16 *Buffer
+ CONST VOID *Buffer
);

VOID *
--
2.31.1