From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:29:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Building Git on Tru64
Message-ID: <r2n81b0412b1004151229g6fe840a1v23a9d06f72e8d36a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1271358589.19032.1370170305@webmail.messagingengine.com>

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 21:09, Daniel Richard G. <skunk@iskunk.org> wrote:
> * On Tru64, MAP_FAILED is #defined as (-1L), and the compiler chokes if
>  you directly compare a pointer to an integer. So, need to cast
>  MAP_FAILED to (void *), redundant as that may seem.

That one may be better handled at one place (git-compat-util.h?) with
something like:

  #ifdef Tru64
  #define MAP_FAILED ((void *)MAP_FAILED)
  #endif

P.S. You may consider reading Documentation/SubmittingPatches.
The way you did it is a little unconventional.