Re: [PATCH 05/51] core: helper function for converting cairo_status_t to human-readable text (like strerror)

Bill Spitzak <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.cairo
Message-ID <CAL-8oAh00d9kJQHNKnk7KUe=papMs+2RMYOcHjEOpBmmTG9kWQ@mail.gmail.com>
I was figuring that functions are not supposed to ever return LAST_STATUS
as an error, so it is just as wrong as returning LAST_STATUS+1 and should
display in a similar way.


On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On 18.12.2015 19:25, Bill Spitzak wrote:
> > I think LAST_STATUS should print a number, not a message.
>
> hmm, what practical improvement does that give us ?
> if such case really happens, we've got an error anyways,
> and in those cases it would be easier if we do not have to
> look up the meaning of the number, IMHO.
>
> --mtx
>
> --
> Enrico Weigelt,
> metux IT consulting
> +49-151-27565287
>

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