Header files with enums instead of defines?

[John-Mark Gurney]

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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