[openbeos] Re: B_TRUE/B_FALSE
- From: "Jonas Sundstrom" <kirilla@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 14:01:36 +0200 CEST
Tyler Dauwalder <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
> Another option is then to use a boolean output parameter and return a
> status_t instead, but output parameters are just annoying.
...
> #define B_FALSE 0
> #define B_TRUE 1
>
> then, one could just return a status_t for the function, check for "<
> B_OK"
> to see if an error occurred (yielding a hopefully useful error code
> if so),
> and if not, check against B_TRUE or B_FALSE to see what the result of
> the
> function was.
>
> You could also define a bool_t or a boolstatus_t type that's
> identical to
> status_t, but whose use as a return value would flag the function as
> operating as described above instead of just returning a standard
> status_t.
>
> Thoughts?
Are you saying you'd prefer something other than the current
way of returning status_t and if (status != B_OK)
check the error code if it's B_ERROR_X, B_ERROR_Y, ..
or prinft("Error: %s\n", strerror(status));
What problem are you trying to solve?
/Jonas Sundström. www.kirilla.com
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