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2024-08-08tree-wide: automated migration to charptr_castJade Lovelace
The lint did it :3 Change-Id: I2d9f276b01ebbf14101de4257ea13e44ff6fe0a0
2024-08-08util: implement charptr_castJade Lovelace
I don't like having so many reinterpret_cast statements that have to actually be looked at to determine if they are UB. A huge number of the reinterpret_cast instances in Lix are actually casting to some pointer of some character type, which is always valid no matter the source type. However, it is also worth looking at if it is not casting both *from* a character type and also *to* a character type, since IMO splatting a struct into a character array should be a very deliberate action instead of just being about dealing with bad APIs. So let's write a template that encapsulates this invariant so we can not worry about the trivially safe reinterpret_cast invocations. Change-Id: Ia4e2f1fa0c567123a96604ddadb3bdd7449660a4