Header files with enums instead of defines?

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Tuesday, 21 December 2004 at 20:43:14 -0500, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 11:31:43AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> Has anybody thought about replacing #defines with enums in header
>> files?  It would make debugging a whole lot easier.  Foe example, I'm
>> currently looking at a debug printout which contains:
>>
>>   xerrno = 17,
>>
>> To find out what that means, I need to go to
>> /usr/src/include/sys/errno.h and look for 17.  I find:
>>
>> #define	EEXIST		17		/* File exists */
>>
>> If we were to change this to
>>
>> enum EEXIST = 17;	                /* File exists */
>>
>> I'd then be able to see:
>>
>>   xerrno = EEXIST,
>>
>> That makes debugging a whole lot easier.  About the only down side I
>> can see is that you can't #undef an enum.  Is this a big deal?
>
> I think you'll screw up an awful lot of people that #ifdef based upon
> the errno names.

*sigh*  Yes, I didn't think about that.  Never mind.

Greg
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