• Platform/operating system (i.e. Raspberry Pi with Raspbian operating system,
  Windows 32-bit, Windows 64-bit, Mac OSX 64-bit, etc.): ArchLinux 64-bit

• Python version (run python -version or python3 -version): python2

• List the steps to reproduce the problem below (if possible attach code or commands
  to run): LIST REPRO STEPS BELOW

When compiling the adafruit beaglebone-io-python libraries on gcc 6.3.1, it fails due to strict aliasing rules. I was curious if these 3 lines could be corrected to fix the issue with compilation.

Compiliation errors