Re: [PATCH] builtin/config: work around an unsized array forward declaration

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Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 09:50:53PM +0200, Beat Bolli wrote:
>
>> > Your patch is obviously correct, but I think here there might be an even
>> > simpler solution: just bump option_parse_type() below the declaration,
>> > since it's the only one that needs it. That hunk is bigger, but the
>> > overall diff is simpler, and we don't need to carry that extra wrapper
>> > function.
>> 
>> That was dscho's first try in the GitHub issue. It doesn't compile
>> because the OPT_CALLBACK* macros in the builtin_config_options
>> declaration inserts a pointer to option_parse_type into the array items.
>> We need at least one forward declaration, and my patch seemed the least
>> intrusive.
>
> Ah, right, so it actually is mutually recursive.  Forward-declaring
> option_parse_type() would fix it, along with the reordering. I'm
> ambivalent between the available options, then; we might as well go with
> what you posted, then, since it's already done. :)

Among three, forward declaration of the function with reordering
that nobody has written except for in the brain smells the best, and
turning an array to a pointer that points at a separate storage looked
the worst.  I also am OK with what's already posted, too.

Thanks.



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