Re: ED error code

2010-11-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Thu 04 Nov 2010 15:03:46 +0100, a écrit : > On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 09:41:35AM +0100, Manuel Menal wrote: > > > (I only changed the manual and ran the AWK scripts to update the > > .c/.h). > [...] > > @@ -212,8 +210,8 @@ enum __error_t_codes > > #defineEPROTO

Re: ED error code

2010-11-04 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 03:52:02PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > I think it still makes sense to remove that ED macro if it serves no > purpose Who says that amusing hackers is not an important purpose? :-) (Especially in a volunteer project like this... See http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp

Re: ED error code

2010-11-04 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 09:41:35AM +0100, Manuel Menal wrote: > (I only changed the manual and ran the AWK scripts to update the > .c/.h). [...] > @@ -212,8 +210,8 @@ enum __error_t_codes > #define EPROTO _HURD_ERRNO (116)/* Protocol error */ > ETIME = _HURD_ER

Re: ED error code

2010-11-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Agreed. On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Michael Banck wrote: > On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 11:30:28AM +0100, Manuel Menal wrote: > > On 02/11/2010 11:29, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Manuel Menal, le Tue 02 Nov 2010 11:20:27 +0100, a écrit : > > >>> “Macros that begin with E and a digit or E and an

Re: ED error code

2010-11-02 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 11:30:28AM +0100, Manuel Menal wrote: > On 02/11/2010 11:29, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Manuel Menal, le Tue 02 Nov 2010 11:20:27 +0100, a écrit : > >>> “Macros that begin with E and a digit or E and an uppercase letter may > >>> be added to the declarations in the header.”

Re: ED error code

2010-11-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Manuel Menal, le Tue 02 Nov 2010 11:20:27 +0100, a écrit : > > “Macros that begin with E and a digit or E and an uppercase letter may > > be added to the declarations in the header.” > > I'm not a native speaker, but I don't think that means E[A-Z0-9]+ are > reserved for error code macros. Only t

Re: ED error code

2010-11-02 Thread Manuel Menal
On 01/11/2010 17:14, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Roland McGrath, le Sun 31 Oct 2010 07:39:20 -0700, a écrit : >> If ED is a problem, then it should just be removed. It's only there as a >> joke. That said, my recollection is that POSIX does reserve all E[A-Z0-9]+ >> macro names to the implementation

Re: ED error code

2010-11-02 Thread Manuel Menal
On 02/11/2010 11:29, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Manuel Menal, le Tue 02 Nov 2010 11:20:27 +0100, a écrit : >>> “Macros that begin with E and a digit or E and an uppercase letter may >>> be added to the declarations in the header.” >> I'm not a native speaker, but I don't think that means E[A-Z0-9]+

Re: ED error code

2010-11-01 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Pino Toscano wrote: > > Although having a reserved, generic error code macro might be > > useful(?), `ED' is a very generic identifier. For example, clang > > uses it in many parts of its code, which makes the build fail on > > GNU/Hurd. I think it's likely that we

Re: ED error code

2010-11-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Roland McGrath, le Sun 31 Oct 2010 07:39:20 -0700, a écrit : > If ED is a problem, then it should just be removed. It's only there as a > joke. That said, my recollection is that POSIX does reserve all E[A-Z0-9]+ > macro names to the implementation for uses. But I don't really > recall if that'

Re: ED error code

2010-11-01 Thread Manuel Menal
On 31/10/2010 15:39, Roland McGrath wrote: > If ED is a problem, then it should just be removed. It's only there as a > joke. That said, my recollection is that POSIX does reserve all E[A-Z0-9]+ > macro names to the implementation for uses. But I don't really > recall if that's so. Considering

Re: ED error code

2010-10-31 Thread Pino Toscano
Hi, Alle domenica 31 ottobre 2010, Manuel Menal ha scritto: > The Hurd port of the GNU C Library defines an error code macro called > `ED', which the glibc manual describes as "The experienced user will > know what is wrong.". This error code macro doesn't seem to be used > anywhere. To be precis

Re: ED error code

2010-10-31 Thread Roland McGrath
If ED is a problem, then it should just be removed. It's only there as a joke. That said, my recollection is that POSIX does reserve all E[A-Z0-9]+ macro names to the implementation for uses. But I don't really recall if that's so.

ED error code

2010-10-31 Thread Manuel Menal
Hello, The Hurd port of the GNU C Library defines an error code macro called `ED', which the glibc manual describes as "The experienced user will know what is wrong.". This error code macro doesn't seem to be used anywhere. Although having a reserved, generic error code macro might be useful(?),