Am 25.03.2015 um 00:11 schrieb Max Filippov: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 2:03 AM, François Revol <re...@free.fr> wrote: >> On 24/03/2015 23:56, Max Filippov wrote: >>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 1:26 AM, Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de> wrote: >>>> Am 24.03.2015 um 00:36 schrieb Alexander von Gluck IV: >>>>> >>>> >>>> Why convert from array to switch statement? It looks like a very >>>> invasive change for no obvious reason. >>> >>> I'd be interested to know the reason too, but I'm OK with either way. >> >> Maybe because negative array indices are usually a bad idea in C? > > Sounds like a good reason (:
True, but assumes that error codes are indeed negative. AFAIU linking with -lposix_error_helper or so (-> configure/Makefile*) may be an alternative, keeping errors POSIX-compliant in our code. I don't recall the implementation details though... Andreas -- SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Jennifer Guild, Dilip Upmanyu, Graham Norton; HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
