[sane-devel] [SANE2 proposal] Error handling

[Oliver Schwartz]

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Hi,

> Personally I don't like using macros as they are not type safe, and
> can cause problems when porting to other languages.
> If you want to save memory (4 bytes :) ) then use
> typedef SANE_Status
> {
>   short code;
>   short backend-code;
> } SANE_Status;
> which is still 32 bits long.

I favour this approach. I admit I don't know a lot about the network=20
implementation, but passing back a string from the error function=20
doesn't look like an unsolvable problem to me.

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