Re: [PATCH v3] builtin-fast-export: Add importing and exporting of revision marks

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Pieter de Bie wrote:

>   I actually had this new patch ready, but I was hoping Dscho would answer
>   this first:
>   
> On 7 jun 2008, at 18:37, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >Oh, I was not complaining about the one-fourthness.  I was wondering why
> >"(uint32_t *)", which makes it look like the type itself has very deep
> >meaning for this computation, was used, instead of "(char *)" or something
> >that makes it much clearer that what could be pointed at by the pointer
> >does not matter and you are only using them as fake integers.  If there is
> >such a deep meaning, it needs documented, and if there isn't then probably
> >the use of (uint32_t *) should also be fixed.
>   
>   since I don't know the answer to that :)

I think that your patch does not need to address that, as the logic is (or 
should be) confined to the functions markt_object() and get_object_mark() 
(except that you have to split off mark_to_ptr() from 
mark_object(), as you did).

Unfortunately, I did not yet have time to look up the discussion on the 
mailing list that led me to implement this funny pointer arithmetic.

Ciao,
Dscho