Re: batching gets and searching

[Colm Smyth <Colm Smyth ireland sun com>]

You could document a parameter using comments like:

void my_func( int /* MyFlagsEnumType */ flags )

which at least makes a correct use of the language type mechanism.

By the way, it's a bad idea to export interfaces using C++ because
name-mangling tends to change between compiler versions and
is never consistent between different compilers. If the wrapper
is small enough, it could be provided as source to be compiled
into each client application.

Colm.

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>FWIW the argument for using the enum type instead of int is mostly
>documentation of which flags are expected, I believe.
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