usage: define a type for a reporting function

The usage, die, warning, and error routines all work with a function
pointer that takes the message to be reported. We usually just mention
the function's full type inline. But this makes the use of these
pointers hard to read, especially because C's syntax for returning a
function pointer is so awful:

  void (*get_error_routine(void))(const char *err, va_list params);

Unless you read it very carefully, this looks like a function pointer
declaration. Let's instead use a single typedef to define a reporting
function, which is the same for all four types.

Note that this also removes the "extern" from these declarations to
match the surrounding functions. They were missed in 554544276a (*.[ch]:
remove extern from function declarations using spatch, 2019-04-29)
presumably because of the unusual syntax.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index 5637114b8d..d0305d1215 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -485,11 +485,13 @@ static inline int const_error(void)
 #define error_errno(...) (error_errno(__VA_ARGS__), const_error())
 #endif
 
-void set_die_routine(NORETURN_PTR void (*routine)(const char *err, va_list params));
-void set_error_routine(void (*routine)(const char *err, va_list params));
-extern void (*get_error_routine(void))(const char *err, va_list params);
-void set_warn_routine(void (*routine)(const char *warn, va_list params));
-extern void (*get_warn_routine(void))(const char *warn, va_list params);
+typedef void (*report_fn)(const char *, va_list params);
+
+void set_die_routine(NORETURN_PTR report_fn routine);
+void set_error_routine(report_fn routine);
+report_fn get_error_routine(void);
+void set_warn_routine(report_fn routine);
+report_fn get_warn_routine(void);
 void set_die_is_recursing_routine(int (*routine)(void));
 
 int starts_with(const char *str, const char *prefix);