Re: Header files with enums instead of defines?

From: John-Mark Gurney (gurney_j_at_resnet.uoregon.edu)
Date: 12/23/04

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To: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>

    Peter Jeremy wrote this message on Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 20:08 +1100:
    > An alternative suggestion for you: Write a gdb macro which takes an
    > int and prints it as an errno. Something like a shorthand version of:
    > print (enum { EPERM=1, ENOENT=2, ..., EILSEQ=86})xerrno
    > should work.
    >
    > You would probably write a [insert scripting language of choice] script
    > to convert <errno.h> into the appropriate gdb macro.

    If you have a running program context (in userland), just do:
    print (char *)strerror(errnovalue) 

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  John-Mark Gurney				Voice: +1 415 225 5579
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