Understanding Kdevelop Source Code

[Kevin Funk]

On Saturday 14 March 2015 17:04:15 Lucas Tanure wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm studying kdevelop code to in the future help the project. So, I
> have a small question :
> 
> kdevplatform/serialization/itemrepository.h:98
> enum {
>     ItemRepositoryBucketSize = 1<<16
> };
> 
> Why do this way ? What are the benefits?
> 
> Why not ?
> #define ItemRepositoryBucketSize 65536

With regards to: 1<<16 vs. 65536 
This is mostly a matter of style, compiler optimizes that out anyway. (Makes it easier to 
grasp the author wanted to have a value of power of 2 here.)

You can find lots of resources on the Internet on the "enum vs. #define" 
debate.

One of them, with an acceptable answer and follow-ups is here:
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/136946/difference-between-enum-and-define-statements

Short: Don't use #define for defining constants in C++

Situation's a bit different in C, because of:
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3431895/c-enum-vs-define-for-mathematical-constants

Cheers
 
> Thanks
> 
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