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To: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>, =?UTF-8?B?RnJhbsOnb2lzIFJldm9s?= <revol@free.fr>
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Am 25.03.2015 um 00:11 schrieb Max Filippov:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 2:03 AM, Fran=C3=A7ois Revol <revol@free.fr> wr=
ote:
>> On 24/03/2015 23:56, Max Filippov wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 1:26 AM, Andreas F=C3=A4rber <afaerber@suse.d=
e> 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?
>=20
> 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

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