Fix multiple memory alignment issues. #1724
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The x86 platform is very forgiving when you access a 16-bits variable stored at a memory address that is not aligned to a 2-bytes boundary, or a 32-bits variable that is not aligned to 4-bytes boundary, and so on. Other platforms, like ARM or Sparc are not that flexible, and accessing a value by dereferencing a pointer that is not aligned to the size of the value causes a processor fault.
This fixes multiple issues caused by pointers that are not aligned to the size of the value.
Fixes: #1700