#379: Generate POSIX errno Constants
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Reporter: chromatic | Owner:
Type: feature | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: configure | Version:
Severity: medium | Keywords:
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Platform: all |
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There's no easy way in Parrot right now to refer to EPERM, EAGAIN, EINTR,
and other POSIX errno constants as constants (see the err i, i opcode, for
example). The ability to do so would help us write more portable code
that doesn't rely on hard-coded magic numbers or the hope of matching
against the output of strerror().
It would be trivial to write a short configuration-process file which runs
a C program to generate a PASM file with these values. It's a quick task
to do, but connecting it to the right place in the configuration process
might be a little trickier.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/379>
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