Re: [take9 1/2] kevent: Core files.

[Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>]

On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 17:01 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
[ #define vs enum { } ]
> And, ugh:
> 
> (gdb) list
> 1       enum {
> 2               A = 1,
> 3               B = 2,
> 4       };
> 5
> 6       int main()
> 7       {
> 8               printf("%x\n", A | B);
> 9       }
> (gdb) bre 8
> Breakpoint 1 at 0x4004ac: file ./test.c, line 8.
> (gdb) r
> Starting program: /tmp/test 
> 
> Breakpoint 1, main () at ./test.c:8
> 8               printf("%x\n", A | B);
> (gdb) p A
> No symbol "A" in current context.

Oops, I stand corrected.

> Actually I completely do not care about define or enums, it is really
> silly dispute, I just do not want to rewrite bunch of code _again_ and
> then _again_ when someone decide that defines are better.

ACK. Personally I also do not care that much - as long as it doesn't
change with the phase of the moon.
And we probably do not want
----  snip  ----
#ifdef CONFIG_I_LOVE_ENUMS
#define A 1
#define B 2
#define C 4
#else
enum {
	A = 1,
	B = 2,
	C = 4,
};
#endif
----  snip  ----
either.

	Bernd, shutting now up on this thread
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