Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/13] Dump the revprops at the start of every revision

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:23:27 +0530

Hi Julian,

Julian Foad writes:
> On Thu, 2010-07-22, Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
> > Jonathan Nieder writes:
> [...]
> > > > +			/* Output name length, then name. */
> > > > +			svn_stringbuf_appendcstr(*strbuf,
> > > > +						 apr_psprintf(pool, "K %" APR_SSIZE_T_FMT "\n",
> > > > +							      keylen));
> > > > +
> > > > +			svn_stringbuf_appendbytes(*strbuf, (const char *) key, keylen);
> > > 
> > > Is the cast needed?  (The answer might be "yes" if this code is meant
> > > to be usable with C++ compilers.)
> > 
> > These casts are all over in the source tree, so I'm guessing the
> > answer is "yes".
> 
> Actually no - Subversion C code is not intended to be compilable as C++
> and that cast is not needed.  (Other casts that you see in Subversion
> code are for different situations.)

Thanks for pointing that out. I'll fix them in my future commits.

-- Ram