We better do this once and for all instead of cluttering all future
commits with diffs of trailing white spaces. In the majority of cases
blank or single lines are affected and thus this change won't disturb
a git blame too much. For future commits the pre-commit scripts
checks that this won't happen again.
char * vs. unsigned char * warnings. The GNU coding standards used to
say that these mismatches are okay and better than a bunch of casts.
Obviously this has changed now.
