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. - Julian
