On 11/06/2011 01:50 PM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: > On 06-11-2011 20:43, Ellery Newcomer wrote: >> poking about in elfutils headers, I've come across the following idiom >> several times >> >> /* Error values. */ >> enum >> { >> DW_TAG_invalid = 0 >> #define DW_TAG_invalid DW_TAG_invalid >> }; >> >> >> anyone know if anything strange is going on here that would prevent >> trivial conversion to d? > > The only thing I can think of is fully-qualified enums. The #define > ensures that you _don't_ have to fully qualify DW_TAG_invalid. But why > they would do this (considering C doesn't have this enum feature), I > don't know. > > - Alex
nor c++, right?