Creating Error Constants

[2-Bit Chip]

Would there a special method to coming up with values for error constants?

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ERROR_FILE_IS_GIGANTIC equ 34893
ERROR_FILE_DISAPPEARED equ 9325
ERROR_BAD_INPUT equ 834323589

EDIT: Ehh.. I'll just do 0 and on

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OKAY equ 0
ERROR_... equ 1
ERROR_... equ 2

[MichaelW]

If it's OK for your user-define error codes to overlap the System Error Codes, then you could use any value. If not, then perhaps a reasonable approach would be to use negative values. Since the highest error code value currently defined is 15301, I doubt that there would be an overlap problem any time soon.

[dedndave]

have a look in masm32\include\windows.inc and masm32\include\winextra.inc
most of them are already made for you