irix compiler objections

direct/src/dcparser/dcPackerInterface.I

@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ INLINE void DCPackerInterface::
 do_pack_float64(char *buffer, double value) {
 #ifdef WORDS_BIGENDIAN
   // Reverse the byte ordering for big-endian machines.
-  char *p = (char *)value;
+  char *p = (char *)&value;
   for (size_t i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
     buffer[i] = p[7 - i];
   }

direct/src/dcparser/dcSimpleParameter.cxx

@@ -1467,7 +1467,7 @@ unpack_uint(const char *data, size_t length, size_t &p, unsigned int &value,
       PN_uint64 uint_value = do_unpack_uint64(data + p);
       _uint64_range.validate(uint_value, range_error);
       value = (unsigned int)uint_value;
-      if (value != uint_value || value < 0) {
+      if (value != uint_value) {
         pack_error = true;
       }
       p += 8;