Use local variables with the appropriate types and eliminate a bunch of casts.
Use local variables with the appropriate types and eliminate a bunch of casts.

This is a cosmetic change but it does help with a proposed change to increase
the maximum size of physical memory supported on amd64 platforms.

Submitted by:	Chris Torek (torek@torek.net)

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