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I'm also wondering why the bits are alternated in the numbers. Why can't we just set AUTH_SUCCESS to 0xffffffff and all the denied / error states to mostly-zero

• junon 3y ago
  Because you don't want to have the wrong error code even if it's a failure code. Thus you have to figure out how to otherwise handle an enum whereby you can be reasonably assured of its value even with a flipped bit, hence the hamming distance.