[PATCH V2] wayland.xml: add "enum", "bitfield" and "is_bitfield" attributes
Bill Spitzak
spitzak at gmail.com
Tue Sep 23 14:41:08 PDT 2014
On 09/23/2014 02:19 PM, Jason Ekstrand wrote:
> In this case, what is the point of making the distinction? Why not just
> specify everything as a bitfield? What do you gain from knowing that
> two things will never be ORed together?
It is to make any attempt to or them together fail at compile time.
Also in some languages (C++) the non-bitfield version is easier to read
and write the source code for, and produces legible error messages when
mis-used.
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