--- /dev/null
+fix unaligned access in gethex()
+
+--- a/fontforge/sfd.c
++++ b/fontforge/sfd.c
+@@ -3393,6 +3393,7 @@
+ static int gethex(FILE *sfd, uint32 *val) {
+ char tokbuf[100]; int ch;
+ char *pt=tokbuf, *end = tokbuf+100-2;
++ uint32 u;
+
+ while ( isspace(ch = nlgetc(sfd)));
+ if ( ch=='#' )
+@@ -3416,7 +3417,8 @@
+ }
+ *pt='\0';
+ ungetc(ch,sfd);
+- *val = strtoul(tokbuf,NULL,16);
++ u = strtoul(tokbuf,NULL,16);
++ memcpy(val, &u, sizeof(u));
+ return( pt!=tokbuf?1:ch==EOF?-1: 0 );
+ }
+