On 9/27/19 8:40 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> SZEDER Gábor <szeder....@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> +#define MIDX_PROGRESS (1 << 0)
>>
>> Please consider using an enum.
>
> If they are used by assiging one of their values, definitely a good
> idea to use an enum. Are debuggers clever enough that they can
> tell, when they see something like this:
>
> enum gress {
> PROGRESS = 1,
> REGRESS = 2,
> };
>
> void func(enum gress v);
>
> ...
>
> void caller(void)
> {
> func(PROGRESS | REGRESS);
> func(PROGRESS + REGRESS);
> func(PROGRESS * 3);
> }
>
> how caller came about to give 3?
>
My debugger was not smart enough to figure out what flags were combined
to give the value of 3 in this example.
I saw that the code base is currently a mix of #define and enums when it
comes to flags (e.g. dir_struct.flags and rebase_options.flags are both
enums) and so using one here would not be something new stylistically.
Although my debugger might not be the smartest, I haven't noticed any
downsides to switching this to an enum.
Thanks,
William
