> 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

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