Re: [Help-glpk] Suggestions for improvements

[Shripad Thite]

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Andrew Makhorin wrote:

> >If the definitions of these constants were changed so that the
> >compiler sees the symbolic names, then the error messages would be
> >much more readable and useful.  For instance, in my program I do:
> >#undef LPX_E_OK
> >const int LPX_E_OK = 200;
> >after which I get the much better error message:
> >  "Assertion `glp_lpx_simplex( lp ) == LPX_E_OK' failed."

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> This is a common practice. Symbolic constants defined in library headers
> must not be redefined in the application program.

I agree.  That is why I would like the change to be made in the library
so *I* don't have to do it.

After all, the point of defining macros like LPX_E_OK is to make the
code readable.  It would be nice if assertion failure messages were more
readable too.


Shripad