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 25.10.2013 11:15, Julian Foad wrote:
> I (Julian Foad) wrote:
>
>>> 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*?
>> 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>.
> Now having read the original discussion (October 2010; the later email mentioned above is merely a good reference to it), it appears we are doing this in order to silence compiler warnings rather than for object-code correctness.

Yes, exactly my point ... compiler warnings that someone goes out of
their way to enable, even though they're not enabled in maintainer mode.
You know how I feel about /that/.

And then we have week-long flames on the dev@ list when someone
pre-emptively initializes a local var to silence a "may be used
uninitialized" warning. See the first entry in the 1.8.x STATUS file,
for example. Duh.

-- Brane

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