Document some weird casting magic that's necessary to interface

with the c-client

git-svn-id: https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk@96935 65c4cc65-6c06-0410-ace0-fbb531ad65f3

diff --git a/apps/app_voicemail.c b/apps/app_voicemail.c
index a9202f1..a8e5c30 100644 (file)
--- a/apps/app_voicemail.c
+++ b/apps/app_voicemail.c
@@ -8213,7 +8213,10 @@ static int load_config(int reload)
                        ast_copy_string(greetingfolder, imapfolder, sizeof(greetingfolder));
                }
 
-               /* Handle the timeouts */
+               /* There is some very unorthodox casting done here. This is due
+                * to the way c-client handles the argument passed in. It expects a 
+                * void pointer and casts the pointer directly to a long without
+                * first dereferencing it. */
                if ((val = ast_variable_retrieve(cfg, "general", "imapreadtimeout"))) {
                        mail_parameters(NIL, SET_READTIMEOUT, (void *) (atol(val)));
                } else {