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7c853619eerefactor: Drop unsafe AsBytePtr function (Ryan Ofsky) Pull request description: Replace calls to `AsBytePtr` with calls to `AsBytes` or `reinterpret_cast`. `AsBytePtr` is just a wrapper around `reinterpret_cast`. It accepts any type of pointer as an argument and uses `reinterpret_cast` to cast the argument to a `std::byte` pointer. Despite taking any type of pointer as an argument, it is not useful to call `AsBytePtr` on most types of pointers, because byte representations of most types will be platform specific or undefined. Also, because it is named similarly to the `AsBytes` function, `AsBytePtr` looks safer than it actually is. Both `AsBytes` and `AsBytePtr` call reinterpret_cast internally and may be unsafe to use with certain types, but AsBytes at least has some type checking and can only be called on `Span` objects, while `AsBytePtr` can be called on any pointer argument. The change was motivated by discussion on #27973 and #27927 and is compatible with those PRs ACKs for top commit: jonatack: re-ACK7c853619eesipa: utACK7c853619eeachow101: ACK7c853619eeTree-SHA512: 200d858b1d4d579f081a7f9a14d488a99713b4918b4564ac3dd5c18578d927dbd6426e62e02f49f04a3fa73ca02ff7109c495cb0b92bec43c27d9b74e2f95757