diff --git a/changes/bug27465 b/changes/bug27465
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..743b35130f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/bug27465
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+  o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
+    - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
+      function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
+      0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast.
+      Fixes bug 27465; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
diff --git a/src/common/address.c b/src/common/address.c
index a32df99107..9446675712 100644
--- a/src/common/address.c
+++ b/src/common/address.c
@@ -1496,7 +1496,10 @@ get_interface_addresses_win32(int severity, sa_family_t family)
     goto done;
   }
 
-  if (!(fn = (GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t)
+  /* Cast through a void function pointer, to silence a spurious compiler
+   * warning on 64-bit Windows. This cast is safe, because we are casting to
+   * the correct type for GetAdaptersAddresses(). */
+  if (!(fn = (GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t)(void(*)(void))
                   GetProcAddress(lib, "GetAdaptersAddresses"))) {
     log_fn(severity, LD_NET, "Unable to obtain pointer to "
            "GetAdaptersAddresses");