fast-export: avoid NULL pointer arithmetic

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While at it remove an outdated comment -- intptr_t has been used since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.s.r@web.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/builtin/fast-export.c b/builtin/fast-export.c
index c0652a7ed0a928d43db21dac82bc440d268ed194..9aa4f7fce8f148e1d4cd2ebdd598c4dbad6cfcc6 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/fast-export.c
+++ b/builtin/fast-export.c
@@ -154,15 +154,14 @@ 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)