type punning warnings in utils/*

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 07:29:05AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>I just noticed there are a bunch of type punning warnings in the utils
>collection:
>
>Chris, any objection to my just fixing these, under my rarely used
>general committer heading, or would you rather see some patches, as I
>haven't been active in the guts for quite some time...

The type-punned warnings are coming from files that are mainly
maintained by Corinna.

cgf