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Subject: Re: Header files with enums instead of defines?
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            Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> writes:
: M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > In order to gain the benefits of the enums, errno would need to be an
: > enum errno_t or some such.  This breaks C++ code that sets errno = 0,
: > since you can't assign integers to errno values.
: > 
: > So even if you retained EBOGUS or whatever, this wouldn't work with
: > C++.  errno has to be an int to work there.
: > 
: > Warner
: 
: I think you might have missed that nothing was actually being declared
: with the errno_t type, but rather the type was used as a cast for gdb.
: It's a neat trick, but still a little cumbersome unless gdb was taught
: about it or given some clever macros.

Then why bother...  Is typing something complex to gdb really better
than "grep $number /usr/include/sys/errno.h"?

Warner