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stake-pool: Remove unsafe pointer casts via Pod types
#5185
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Problem
#5179 was a quick fix to properly deserialize the stake pool types in-place, updating all contained types to align to 1. This works, but any other type aligned to an address greater than 1 can still expose undefined behavior.
Solution
Rather than parametrizing everything in
BigVecto thePacktrait, changeBigVecto use the bytemuckPodtrait, which is designed for this exact situation.While going through this, I noticed that the custom iterator over
BigVecwas not very performant, and that it was much better to just deserialize the whole slice in-place. With this PR, we can once again support the big pool size from #5179.