Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:01:21 +0400
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
To: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
       Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [take9 1/2] kevent: Core files.
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On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 02:53:25PM +0200, Bernd Petrovitsch (bernd@firmix.at) wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 15:13 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> [...]
> > And what is the difference between
> 
> As others already pointed out in this thread:
> 
> These are not seen by the C compiler.
> > #define A 1
> > #define B 2
> > #define C 4
> > and
> 
> These are known by the C compiler and thus usable/viewable in a
> debugger.
> > enum {
> >  A = 1,
> >  B = 2,
> >  C = 4,
> > }
> > ?

:) And I pointed quite a few other issues about enums vs. defines.
According to this one - no one wants to watch enums in debugger.

And, ugh:

(gdb) list
1       enum {
2               A = 1,
3               B = 2,
4       };
5
6       int main()
7       {
8               printf("%x\n", A | B);
9       }
(gdb) bre 8
Breakpoint 1 at 0x4004ac: file ./test.c, line 8.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /tmp/test 

Breakpoint 1, main () at ./test.c:8
8               printf("%x\n", A | B);
(gdb) p A
No symbol "A" in current context.


Actually I completely do not care about define or enums, it is really
silly dispute, I just do not want to rewrite bunch of code _again_ and
then _again_ when someone decide that defines are better.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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