On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Andrea Faulds <a...@ajf.me> wrote: > >> On 24 Dec 2014, at 17:22, Levi Morrison <le...@php.net> wrote: >> >> Hmm. This thread doesn't seem to mention it, but why must failure be >> negative? I understand the non-zero part but not negative. Aside from >> the fact we probably have code relying on it to be negative at this >> point is there some other reason? > > Hey Levi, > > I believe it's a convention among C APIs: 0 for success, negative for some > error
I'm asking for specific things. The reason is that some API's do a non-zero error code; the fact that they are negative is a detail that we should not need to care about. Thanks. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
