diff --git a/src/librustc_data_structures/sip128.rs b/src/librustc_data_structures/sip128.rs
index cc653dca60c70..430f2f40caa9b 100644
--- a/src/librustc_data_structures/sip128.rs
+++ b/src/librustc_data_structures/sip128.rs
@@ -51,46 +51,17 @@ macro_rules! compress {
     }};
 }
 
-/// Loads an integer of the desired type from a byte stream, in LE order. Uses
-/// `copy_nonoverlapping` to let the compiler generate the most efficient way
-/// to load it from a possibly unaligned address.
-///
-/// Unsafe because: unchecked indexing at i..i+size_of(int_ty)
-macro_rules! load_int_le {
-    ($buf:expr, $i:expr, $int_ty:ident) => {{
-        debug_assert!($i + mem::size_of::<$int_ty>() <= $buf.len());
-        let mut data = 0 as $int_ty;
-        ptr::copy_nonoverlapping(
-            $buf.get_unchecked($i),
-            &mut data as *mut _ as *mut u8,
-            mem::size_of::<$int_ty>(),
-        );
-        data.to_le()
-    }};
-}
-
-/// Loads an u64 using up to 7 bytes of a byte slice.
-///
-/// Unsafe because: unchecked indexing at start..start+len
+/// Loads up to 8 bytes from a byte-slice into a little-endian u64.
 #[inline]
-unsafe fn u8to64_le(buf: &[u8], start: usize, len: usize) -> u64 {
-    debug_assert!(len < 8);
-    let mut i = 0; // current byte index (from LSB) in the output u64
-    let mut out = 0;
-    if i + 3 < len {
-        out = u64::from(load_int_le!(buf, start + i, u32));
-        i += 4;
-    }
-    if i + 1 < len {
-        out |= u64::from(load_int_le!(buf, start + i, u16)) << (i * 8);
-        i += 2
-    }
-    if i < len {
-        out |= u64::from(*buf.get_unchecked(start + i)) << (i * 8);
-        i += 1;
+fn u8to64_le(buf: &[u8], start: usize, len: usize) -> u64 {
+    assert!(len <= 8 && start + len <= buf.len());
+
+    let mut out = 0u64;
+    unsafe {
+        let out_ptr = &mut out as *mut _ as *mut u8;
+        ptr::copy_nonoverlapping(buf.as_ptr().offset(start as isize), out_ptr, len);
     }
-    debug_assert_eq!(i, len);
-    out
+    out.to_le()
 }
 
 impl SipHasher128 {
@@ -272,7 +243,7 @@ impl Hasher for SipHasher128 {
 
         if self.ntail != 0 {
             needed = 8 - self.ntail;
-            self.tail |= unsafe { u8to64_le(msg, 0, cmp::min(length, needed)) } << (8 * self.ntail);
+            self.tail |= u8to64_le(msg, 0, cmp::min(length, needed)) << (8 * self.ntail);
             if length < needed {
                 self.ntail += length;
                 return;
@@ -290,7 +261,7 @@ impl Hasher for SipHasher128 {
 
         let mut i = needed;
         while i < len - left {
-            let mi = unsafe { load_int_le!(msg, i, u64) };
+            let mi = u8to64_le(msg, i, 8);
 
             self.state.v3 ^= mi;
             Sip24Rounds::c_rounds(&mut self.state);
@@ -299,7 +270,7 @@ impl Hasher for SipHasher128 {
             i += 8;
         }
 
-        self.tail = unsafe { u8to64_le(msg, i, left) };
+        self.tail = u8to64_le(msg, i, left);
         self.ntail = left;
     }