On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 02:46:29PM -0700, Jonathan Tan wrote: > > > Well, I agree that it could be better, but with the C language as we > > > have it now, I still slightly prefer an enum to a list of #define. Both > > > ways, we still have to manually enter values for each flag, but with > > > enum, we get better debugger display (at least in gdb) and in the > > > function declaration and definition, we can put a specific type (instead > > > of "unsigned" or "int"). gdb supports the notion that a few people use > > > enums this way too, but if we decide as a project to not use enums in > > > this way, that's fine too. For what it's worth, I tried doing a search > > > online, but most of the results I got was for C# (where it is > > > recommended - they have a "[Flags]" attribute for enums), so maybe I am > > > indeed in the minority. > > > > I'll try to pick another set of constants to convert - before this is > > agreed on. > > Thanks - perhaps that's the best way to proceed for now. Do you remember > where you found the idea to convert #define to enum? Maybe I could add a > note there to avoid converting bitsets/bitflags.
I found it in a mailing list thread[1], but seems that a comment on bit field values was added to a similar issue on GitGitGadget[2]. [1] https://public-inbox.org/git/20190923180649.ga2...@szeder.dev/ [2] https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/357
