RedBoot: Cleanup excessive indirection in option argument handling.

[David Vrabel]

Hi,

> RedBoot's init_opts()/scan_opts() use an excessive level of indirection 
> for the handling of option arguments.  GCC 3.3 chokes on it with 
> warnings about "dereferencing type-punned pointer will break 
> strict-aliasing rules".
> 
> Expect a patch later cleaning up all the typecasts in the 
> init_opts()/scan_opts() calls.

Here are some of them (redboot and generic i386 and arm).  Other 
architectures and boards are left as a exercise for the reader...

2003-10-01  David Vrabel  <dvrabel@arcom.com>

	* Various: Remove unnecessary typecasts in calls to init_opts()
	and scan_opts().

David Vrabel
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