On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 20:54 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > This doesn't do what I want at all. The goal is to make the *symbolic
> > enumeration constants* inaccessible to most code.
>
...
> If it's OK to have the enums in a header, provided you can't *use* them...
>
> enum {
> #ifdef TVQ_AUTHORITATIVE_ENUMS
> TVQ_FOO1,
> TVQ_FOO2,
> TVQ_FOO3,
> TVQ_NUM_ENTRIES,
> #endif
> TVQ_INT_SIZER = 32767;
> } TheValQuux;
>
> This won't stop a suitably enthusiastic programmer from getting to
> them anyway, but that's always the case.
Ooh, I like this one for enum machine_mode. The relevant header
(machmode.def) is already machine-generated, so it would be a fairly
small change. And doesn't in any way interfere with Gabriel's cleanups
to use the enumeration type instead of 'int', which is good.
Be a hell of a lot of breakage to sort through, though. Unless we've
got a volunteer with a whole lot of time, I don't think this is
happening for 4.1. Oh well.
zw
