Once upon a time wabt::Error had no way to access the inner wabt::ErrorKind. In those days, I'd noticed that Error was a struct that contained only an ErrorKind, so this transmute was a hack to get the ErrorKind and the corresponding message so we could print that out while wabt was being tweaked to make this doable safely.
wabt long since has been tweaked to make this doable safely.
iximeow
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4 years ago 
Once upon a time
wabt::Errorhad no way to access the innerwabt::ErrorKind. In those days, I'd noticed thatErrorwas a struct that contained only anErrorKind, so this transmute was a hack to get theErrorKindand the corresponding message so we could print that out whilewabtwas being tweaked to make this doable safely.wabtlong since has been tweaked to make this doable safely.