Re: [PATCH] clean up extern decl of functions

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Hi Junio,

On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 08:27:55AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Among external function declarations, somehow only these two
> functions that return pointer-to-function were declared with
> "extern" in front.
> 
> Ideally, we should standardise to _have_ explicit "extern" in front
> for all function (and data) decls, but let's make things uniform
> first.  Bulk re-addition of extern can be done without any extra
> difficulty with or without this change.

Why are we re-introducing an explicit "extern"? Since function decls are
extern by default, what do we gain by doing this?

You mentioned in the past[0]

	I think there is a push to drop the "extern " from decls of
	functions in *.h header files.

so are we reversing that push now?

> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>

The code part looks good to me. Good catch.

Thanks,
Denton

[0]: https://public-inbox.org/git/xmqqef67zz7u.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/



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