8-byte read instead of a 4-byte read to pick up the 4 highest-order
bytes of a little-endian flonum, potentially reading past the end of
mapped memory for flonums produced by taking the imaginary part of an
inexact complexnum (which, unlike other flonums, are not aligned on
16-byte boundaries). The 8-byte load would also have failed to produce
correct results on 64-bit big-endian machines (of which we presently
have none) because the offsets passed to flonum-extractor assume the
bits are in the lowest-order 4 bytes of the extracted field.
cp0.ss,
misc.ms,
release_notes.stex
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