From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 02:35:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usage: add NORETURN to BUG() function definitions
Message-ID: <xmqqh90dpqja.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <11cae8d7-46a6-9ab5-5bee-a7e6897c0a88@ramsayjones.plus.com>

Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> writes:

> So, I don't know. Wait let me try your specific version:
>
> $ ~/sparse/sparse --version
> v0.5.0-207-g14964df
> $ ~/sparse/sparse usage.c
> usage.c:220:6: error: symbol 'BUG_fl' redeclared with different type (originally declared at git-compat-util.h:1074) - different modifiers
> $ 
>
> Er, dunno. (This is on Linux Mint 18.1).

Oh, I don't question your expertise or competence.  There must be
something I am doing wrong, and the version of sparse I happened to
have run was the easiest thing to point a finger at, but that does
not seem to be it.

Thanks for helping.  I'll find time to dig deeper to find what's
breaking it for me.