Re: Use enum to declare errno values

[Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>]

moreau francis writes:

[...]

 > 
 > I guess we won't use enumeration because it needs to many changes...Each
 > function that returns a errno value should have their prototype changed like
 > this:
 > 
 >     int foo(void)
 >     {
 >             int retval;
 >             [...]
 >             return retval;
 >     }
 > 
 > should be changed into
 > 
 >     enum errnoval foo(void)
 >     {
 >             enum errnoval retval;
 >             [...]
 >             return retval;
 >     }

No it shouldn't. Following is a perfectly legal thing to do in C:

enum side {
        LEFT,
        RIGHT
};

int foo(int x)
{
        if (x & 0x1)
                return LEFT;
        else
                return RIGHT;
}

This is not C++ fortunately.

Nikita.
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