[PATCH 1/6] Add INLINE_SYSCALL_ERROR_RETURN

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Tue Oct 13 12:38:00 GMT 2015


On 10/13/2015 01:19 AM, H.J. Lu wrote:
> +/* Set error number and return -1.  A target may choose to return the
> +   internal function, __syscall_error, which sets errno and returns -1.  */
> +#define INLINE_SYSCALL_ERROR_RETURN(err) \
> +  ({						\
> +    __set_errno (err);				\
> +    -1;						\
> +  })

I think the name is unfortunate because it the macro does not contain a
return statement.

Perhaps INLINE_SYSCALL_SET_ERRNO would be a better name?

Florian



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