Clang 6 reports the following warning, which is turned into an error in a
DEVELOPER build:

        builtin/fast-export.c:162:28: error: performing pointer arithmetic on a 
null pointer has undefined behavior [-Werror,-Wnull-pointer-arithmetic]
                return ((uint32_t *)NULL) + mark;
                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^
        1 error generated.

The compiler is correct, and the error message speaks for itself.  There
is no need for any undefined operation -- just cast mark to void * or
uint32_t after an intermediate cast to uintptr_t.  That encodes the
integer value into a pointer and later decodes it as intended.

While at it remove an outdated comment -- intptr_t has been used since
ffe659f94d (parse-options: make some arguments optional, add callbacks),
committed in October 2007.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l....@web.de>
---
 builtin/fast-export.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/fast-export.c b/builtin/fast-export.c
index 530df12f05..fa556a3c93 100644
--- a/builtin/fast-export.c
+++ b/builtin/fast-export.c
@@ -156,15 +156,14 @@ static void anonymize_path(struct strbuf *out, const char 
*path,
        }
 }
 
-/* Since intptr_t is C99, we do not use it here */
-static inline uint32_t *mark_to_ptr(uint32_t mark)
+static inline void *mark_to_ptr(uint32_t mark)
 {
-       return ((uint32_t *)NULL) + mark;
+       return (void *)(uintptr_t)mark;
 }
 
 static inline uint32_t ptr_to_mark(void * mark)
 {
-       return (uint32_t *)mark - (uint32_t *)NULL;
+       return (uint32_t)(uintptr_t)mark;
 }
 
 static inline void mark_object(struct object *object, uint32_t mark)
-- 
2.17.0

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