From 8b8bf90b982e7184d36014300f2289ab7aea2b85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman@kitware.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:48:05 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] ENH: remove warning

---
 DynamicLoader.cxx | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/DynamicLoader.cxx b/DynamicLoader.cxx
index 4dfeb02..7e68977 100644
--- a/DynamicLoader.cxx
+++ b/DynamicLoader.cxx
@@ -359,10 +359,14 @@ int DynamicLoader::CloseLibrary(DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle lib)
 DynamicLoader::SymbolPointer DynamicLoader::GetSymbolAddress(
   DynamicLoader::LibraryHandle lib, const char* sym)
 {
-  void* result = dlsym(lib, sym);
-
   // Hack to cast pointer-to-data to pointer-to-function.
-  return *reinterpret_cast<DynamicLoader::SymbolPointer*>(&result);
+  union 
+  {
+    void* pvoid;
+    DynamicLoader::SymbolPointer psym;
+  } result;
+  result.pvoid = dlsym(lib, sym);
+  return result.psym;
 }
 
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