From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:15:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix git to be (more) ANSI C99 compliant.
Message-ID: <7vodwmzrn5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vr71kcien.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

> I think applying the patch in question on top of Florian's 11172e
> would be the most sensible, since that is currently the tip of ff/c99
> topic branch whose early parts have been merged to "next" and
> the tip to "pu".  When Linus feels as sympathetic as I do, we
> can pull the rest of ff/c99 branch to "next" and then eventually
> to "master" and the patch will be merged together without
> introducing the nonsense casts.

Now, without asking Linus about this further, I felt sympathetic
enough to decide that void-pointer arithmetic avoidance is not
so bad (touches only 70 lines or so in 19 files); tonight's
"next" should be compilable with the default Solaris compiler.