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.