diff --git a/src/platform/redox/mod.rs b/src/platform/redox/mod.rs
index c041d0a6fb..f9c963dd47 100644
--- a/src/platform/redox/mod.rs
+++ b/src/platform/redox/mod.rs
@@ -1197,7 +1197,7 @@ impl Pal for Sys {
             )?;
 
             let timer_ptr = timer_buf as *mut timer_internal_t;
-            let timer_st = (&mut *timer_ptr);
+            let timer_st = &mut *timer_ptr;
 
             timer_st.clockid = clock_id;
             timer_st.timerfd = timerfd.take();
@@ -1273,7 +1273,7 @@ impl Pal for Sys {
         timer_st.next_wake_time = {
             let mut val = value.clone();
             if flags & TIMER_ABSTIME == 0 {
-                val.it_value = timespec::add(now, val.it_value).ok_or((Errno(EINVAL)))?;
+                val.it_value = timespec::add(now, val.it_value).ok_or(Errno(EINVAL))?;
             }
             val
         };
diff --git a/src/start.rs b/src/start.rs
index 2e67df5b4b..74ed74aded 100644
--- a/src/start.rs
+++ b/src/start.rs
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ pub struct Stack {
 
 impl Stack {
     pub fn argv(&self) -> *const *const c_char {
-        &self.argv0 as *const _
+        ptr::from_ref(&self.argv0)
     }
 
     pub fn envp(&self) -> *const *const c_char {
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ impl Stack {
             while !(*envp).is_null() {
                 envp = envp.add(1);
             }
-            envp.add(1) as *const (usize, usize)
+            envp.add(1).cast::<(usize, usize)>()
         }
     }
 }
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ unsafe fn copy_string_array(array: *const *const c_char, len: usize) -> Vec<*mut
             len += 1;
         }
 
-        let buf = unsafe { platform::alloc(len + 1) } as *mut c_char;
+        let buf = unsafe { platform::alloc(len + 1) }.cast::<c_char>();
         for i in 0..=len {
             unsafe { *buf.add(i) = *item.add(i) };
         }
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn relibc_start_v1(
     unsafe { platform::inner_argv.unsafe_set(copy_string_array(argv, argc as usize)) };
     unsafe { platform::argv = platform::inner_argv.unsafe_mut().as_mut_ptr() };
     // Special code for program_invocation_name and program_invocation_short_name
-    if let Some(arg) = unsafe { platform::inner_argv.unsafe_ref() }.get(0) {
+    if let Some(arg) = unsafe { platform::inner_argv.unsafe_ref() }.first() {
         unsafe { platform::program_invocation_name = *arg };
         unsafe { platform::program_invocation_short_name = libgen::basename(*arg) };
     }
diff --git a/src/sync/mod.rs b/src/sync/mod.rs
index 93bcab0ff3..559628d013 100644
--- a/src/sync/mod.rs
+++ b/src/sync/mod.rs
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ use crate::{
 use core::{
     mem::MaybeUninit,
     ops::Deref,
+    ptr,
     sync::atomic::{self, AtomicI32, AtomicI32 as AtomicInt, AtomicU32},
 };
 
@@ -78,7 +79,7 @@ impl FutexAtomicTy for AtomicU32 {
 
         // AtomicU32::as_mut_ptr internally calls UnsafeCell::get, which itself simply does (&self
         // as *const Self as *mut Self).
-        self as *const AtomicU32 as *mut u32
+        ptr::from_ref::<AtomicU32>(self) as *mut u32
     }
 }
 impl FutexAtomicTy for AtomicI32 {
@@ -92,7 +93,7 @@ impl FutexAtomicTy for AtomicI32 {
         #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
         return AtomicI32::as_mut_ptr(self);*/
 
-        self as *const AtomicI32 as *mut i32
+        ptr::from_ref::<AtomicI32>(self) as *mut i32
     }
 }
 
@@ -212,9 +213,9 @@ impl AtomicLock {
     /// A general way to efficiently wait for what might be a long time, using two closures:
     ///
     /// - `attempt` = Attempt to modify the atomic value to any
-    /// desired state.
+    ///   desired state.
     /// - `mark_long` = Attempt to modify the atomic value to sign
-    /// that it want's to get notified when waiting is done.
+    ///   that it want's to get notified when waiting is done.
     ///
     /// Both of these closures are allowed to spuriously give a
     /// non-success return value, they are used only as optimization