feat: unsafe updates for raw pointer arguments

[f5yacobucci]

Dereferencing raw pointers is inherently unsafe. To satisfy clippy these functions and their callers require an unsafe indicator.

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[f5yacobucci]

This changes the safety designation of some functions to satisfy clippy.

Since this is a breaking change for consumers I'd like to discuss alternative approaches, but I couldn't find one in a timely manner.