Interestingly, GCC 4.8 does not even warn about that code of yours although it's arguably in violation of the standard which says "A reference shall be initialized to refer to a valid object or function" (8.3.2) with "valid" being the important bit.
Since originalInt is not of a type that the new reference type can accomodate, it isn't a valid object (well, originalInt itself is a valid object, but result of the cast which the reference is initialized with isn't). You would think that this is obvious to the compiler, too. But maybe it's because of the cast operation. Probably the compiler assumes "programmer said cast, so he knows what he's doing".
He cast a POD to a POD so it's valid as long memory (size) constraints are honored and they are since it's a smaller.