Elijah Newren wrote: > According to http://c-faq.com/null/machexamp.html, sizeof(char*) != > sizeof(int*) on some platforms. Since an enum could be a char or int > (or long or...), knowing the size of the enum thus is important to > knowing the size of a pointer to an enum, so we cannot just forward > declare an enum the way we can a struct. (Also, modern C++ compilers > apparently define forward declarations of an enum to either be useless > because the enum was defined, or require an explicit size specifier, or > be a compilation error.)
Beyond the effect on some obscure platforms, this also makes it possible to build with gcc -pedantic (which can be useful for finding some other problems). Thanks for fixing it. [...] > --- a/packfile.h > +++ b/packfile.h > @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ > #ifndef PACKFILE_H > #define PACKFILE_H > > +#include "cache.h" > #include "oidset.h" > > /* in object-store.h */ > struct packed_git; > struct object_info; Not about this patch: comments like the above are likely to go stale, since nothing verifies they continue to be true. So we should remove them. #leftoverbits Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com>
