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Eliminate some type punning warnings in proxy.c. This was inspired by a patch from o_sukhodolsky. He added a second variable and cast p to char *. I instead opted to make p a char *, which I think is more clear, and it eliminates more casts than it adds.

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
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"Related Pages" section.

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doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.