@dbwiddis it would be good if this would be tested in an environment, where the original issue was visible. It should be save to read a single byte from the beginning of the structure, as there is no smaller datatype in C.

Please see #1326 for a (most probably) better solution.

I've already updated my own project's snapshot with this fix and asked the original issue reporters to test. Meanwhile I'll spin up an Azure VM today and see if I can reproduce the problem and then test the #1326 fix.

Please see #1326 for a (most probably) better solution.

This nice work.

Closed in favor of #1326

As a follow up, the users reporting this original issue tested the equivalent of this fix and could not reproduce the problem, which suggests the #1326 fix will also work.