From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 01:46:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC v2 08/16] Make in-memory format aware of stat_crc
Message-ID: <7vobmo23n8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1344203353-2819-9-git-send-email-t.gummerer@gmail.com>

Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> writes:

> +	stat_crc = crc32(stat_crc, (Bytef*)&stat, 4);
> +	stat = htonl(ce->ce_ino);
> +	stat_crc = crc32(stat_crc, (Bytef*)&stat, 4);
> +	stat = htonl(ce->ce_size);
> +	stat_crc = crc32(stat_crc, (Bytef*)&stat, 4);
> +	stat = htonl(ce->ce_dev);
> +	stat_crc = crc32(stat_crc, (Bytef*)&stat, 4);
> +	stat = htonl(ce->ce_uid);
> +	stat_crc = crc32(stat_crc, (Bytef*)&stat, 4);
> +	stat = htonl(ce->ce_gid);
> +	stat_crc = crc32(stat_crc, (Bytef*)&stat, 4);
> +	return stat_crc;

What are these (Bytef *) casts are about?  We do not use it in any
of our existing calls to crc32().