Memory alignment issues in Table Services

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The CFE code has some problem areas for CPUs that have strict memory alignment requirements (e.g. SPARC). Casting from a type with smaller requirements to a type with larger requirements generates a compile time warning and may induce a runtime exception if the memory actually is not aligned.

The following errors exist in the TBL subsystem:

{{{
/cfe/fsw/cfe-core/src/tbl/cfe_tbl_internal.c: In function 'CFE_TBL_RemoveAccessLink':
/cfe/fsw/cfe-core/src/tbl/cfe_tbl_internal.c:480:70: warning: cast increases required alignment of target type [-Wcast-align]
Status = CFE_ES_PutPoolBuf(CFE_TBL_TaskData.Buf.PoolHdl, (uint32 *)RegRecPtr->Buffers[0].BufferPtr);
^
/cfe/fsw/cfe-core/src/tbl/cfe_tbl_internal.c:492:74: warning: cast increases required alignment of target type [-Wcast-align]
Status = CFE_ES_PutPoolBuf(CFE_TBL_TaskData.Buf.PoolHdl, (uint32 *)RegRecPtr->Buffers[1].BufferPtr);
^
}}}

NOTE: This is related to PSP ticket [cfs_psp:41]

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Imported from trac issue 283. Created by jphickey on 2019-04-25T09:54:18, last modified: 2019-08-14T14:10:17

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Targeting 7.0 to allow major tlm packet updates. Errors don't show up in 32bit build for MCP750 with CCSDS Version 2 set so not critical to 6.8.

[jphickey]

This is already fixed in issue #437, via commit 4607e4e

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Fixed by #479