The dereference() function to peel a tree-ish and find the underlying
tree expects arithmetic to (void *) to work on byte addresses. We
should be reading the text of objects through a char * anyway.
Noticed-by: Junio C Hamano [off-list ref]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <redacted>
---
Junio C Hamano wrote:
... Yikes. I said the above and then my build for "master" breaks with
fast-import.c: In function 'dereference':
fast-import.c:2885: error: pointer of type 'void *' used in arithmetic
fast-import.c:2890: error: pointer of type 'void *' used in arithmetic
This should fix it, I suppose? A
-std=c99 -O3 -Wall -W
-Wno-sign-compare
-Wno-unused-parameter
-Wno-missing-field-initializers
-Wno-empty-body
-Wno-pointer-to-int-cast
-Wno-type-limits
-Wno-unused-but-set-variable
-Wold-style-definition -Wpointer-arith -Wvla
-Wdeclaration-after-statement -Werror
build passes, except for an "unsigned long expire" in builtin-reflog
that confuses this copy of gcc.
fast-import.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fast-import.c b/fast-import.c
index 6c37b84..e1268b8 100644
--- a/fast-import.c
+++ b/fast-import.c
@@ -2848,7 +2848,7 @@ static struct object_entry *dereference(struct object_entry *oe,
unsigned char sha1[20])
{
unsigned long size;
- void *buf = NULL;
+ char *buf = NULL;
if (!oe) {
enum object_type type = sha1_object_info(sha1, NULL);
if (type < 0)--
1.7.4.1