# HG changeset patch
# Parent 6b840aa1bad9386c57d7896d8b67954ade3a226f

diff --git a/Modules/socketmodule.c b/Modules/socketmodule.c
--- a/Modules/socketmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/socketmodule.c
@@ -3310,7 +3310,6 @@ socket_gethostbyname_ex(PyObject *self, 
     char *name;
     struct hostent *h;
     sock_addr_t addr;
-    struct sockaddr *sa;
     PyObject *ret = NULL;
 #ifdef HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R
     struct hostent hp_allocated;
@@ -3349,13 +3348,8 @@ socket_gethostbyname_ex(PyObject *self, 
     h = gethostbyname(name);
 #endif /* HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R */
     Py_END_ALLOW_THREADS
-    /* Some C libraries would require addr.__ss_family instead of
-       addr.ss_family.
-       Therefore, we cast the sockaddr_storage into sockaddr to
-       access sa_family. */
-    sa = SAS2SA(&addr);
     ret = gethost_common(h, SAS2SA(&addr), sizeof(addr),
-                         sa->sa_family);
+                         addr.sa.sa_family);
 #ifdef USE_GETHOSTBYNAME_LOCK
     PyThread_release_lock(netdb_lock);
 #endif
@@ -3378,7 +3372,6 @@ static PyObject *
 socket_gethostbyaddr(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
 {
     sock_addr_t addr;
-    struct sockaddr *sa = SAS2SA(&addr);
     char *ip_num;
     struct hostent *h;
     PyObject *ret = NULL;
@@ -3406,20 +3399,20 @@ socket_gethostbyaddr(PyObject *self, PyO
     if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "et:gethostbyaddr", "idna", &ip_num))
         return NULL;
     af = AF_UNSPEC;
-    if (setipaddr(ip_num, sa, sizeof(addr), af) < 0)
+    if (setipaddr(ip_num, SAS2SA(&addr), sizeof(addr), af) < 0)
         goto finally;
-    af = sa->sa_family;
+    af = addr.sa.sa_family;
     ap = NULL;
     al = 0;
     switch (af) {
     case AF_INET:
-        ap = (char *)&((struct sockaddr_in *)sa)->sin_addr;
-        al = sizeof(((struct sockaddr_in *)sa)->sin_addr);
+        ap = (char *)&(addr.in.sin_addr);
+        al = sizeof(addr.in.sin_addr);
         break;
 #ifdef ENABLE_IPV6
     case AF_INET6:
-        ap = (char *)&((struct sockaddr_in6 *)sa)->sin6_addr;
-        al = sizeof(((struct sockaddr_in6 *)sa)->sin6_addr);
+        ap = (char *)&(addr.in6.sin6_addr);
+        al = sizeof(addr.in6.sin6_addr);
         break;
 #endif
     default: