Re: svn commit: r1535399 - in /subversion/trunk/subversion: libsvn_fs_fs/ libsvn_fs_x/ libsvn_subr/ libsvn_wc/ mod_authz_svn/ tests/cmdline/ tests/libsvn_client/ tests/libsvn_fs_fs/ tests/libsvn_fs_x/ tests/libsvn_subr/ tests/libsvn_wc/

> On Fri, 25 Oct 2013, Branko Čibej wrote:

>>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1535399
>>> Log:
>>> Cast NULL to (char *) in vararg calls to svn_dirent_join_many
>>> and svn_path_join_many.
>>
>> Why? On which platform do you expect a char* to have a different size
>> and/or representation than a void*?

Alan Barrett wrote:
> [theory]

Alan, Brane specifically asked about practice not theory.

Brane, we have been doing this consistently for the last three years; Philip's commit was just continuing it.  See [1] for the original discussion.

[1] Email to dev@ from Stefan Sperling on 2011-02-25, subject "Re: svn commit: r1074461 ...", <http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2011-02/0841.shtml>.

- Julian
Received on 2013-10-25 11:10:27 CEST