linux-kernel - Re: Should new code have forward declarations of static functions or not?

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Message-ID: <20180518170605.GA22641@infradead.org>
Date:   Fri, 18 May 2018 10:06:05 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Simon Que <sque@...omium.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Should new code have forward declarations of static functions or
 not?

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 12:44:31PM -0400, Simon Que wrote:
> Is it preferred to have forward declarations of static funcs, or to omit
> them altogether?

There are cases where you need them.  But in general if you do not
absolutely need them try to avoid them.