Hello Gerrit.

13 Jan 03 20:34, you wrote to smapi hackers:

 GK> Can someone explain me, why functions in e.g. sq_read.c and
 GK> sq_write.c have such strange handling of their return values?

Value 0xffffffff is reserved for error return, not an real message number.
-1l is equivalent to it.

This strange usage of -1 produced historically: where 16 bit value be use
for real message number.

Todo: replace ((unsigned long) -1l) to macro, defined  like as:

#define NOMESSAGE 0xffffffff


Stas

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