gas pointer to int and vice versa

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Wed, 9 Jul 2025, Sam James wrote:

> >  Hmm, given that updates were made to the affected lines this piece and 
> > the rest of the changes applied to this file could have benefitted from 
> > fixing formatting to follow the GNU Coding Standards, i.e. adding the 
> > missing space after the first cast:
> >
> > 		    (char *) (intptr_t) fixups[0].opindex);
> >
> > but given that you've pushed it already I think the file will best remain 
> > as it is so as not to clutter `git blame' with syntactic noise.  Sigh.
> 
> I think the "Sigh." can come across as passive aggressive and is
> unhelpful.

 Apologies to give such impression, not meant as such, not at all.  Just a 
reflection on a missed opportunity; a minor one admittedly, I wish we only 
had such issues in life.

> Anyway, there's nothing stopping us maintaining a .git-blame-ignore-revs
> file at the root of the repo which contains commits to be ignored for
> the purposes of `git blame`. git has to be configured to use it (the
> filename isn't special / automatically recognised) but that's not a big
> deal.

 Good to know, thanks.  I'm not sure if it scales well though.

  Maciej