Re: Use enum to declare errno values

From: Ben Pfaff
Date: Thu Nov 24 2005 - 12:23:42 EST


moreau francis <francis_moreau2000@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> I'm just wondering why not declaring errno values using enumaration ? It is
> just more convenient when debuging the kernel.

The C standard says that errno values are macros that expand to
integer constant expressions. This is important for userspace,
if not for the kernel.
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