Re: Header files with enums instead of defines?

From: M. Warner Losh (imp_at_bsdimp.com)
Date: 12/22/04

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    Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:34:11 -0700 (MST)
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    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
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