Scheme for avoiding conflict of error numbers

[CesarCoelho]

I have noticed that the MAL complains when I try to deepInit a certain Area when one has repeated error numbers.
For example, I have 2 different sets of services Platform and Software Management services. However, because I was numbering them sequentially starting it with 1, there was an overlap of errors during the initialization and the MAL implementation complained during runtime.
I have checked the COM services and this is what you have defined:

INVALID 70000
DUPLICATE 70001

Sam's answer:
No, there is no scheme for avoiding conflict of error numbers. Its probably worth raising a RID on the MAL spec for this.

[CesarCoelho]

After discussing it with Sam, it was agreed to follow the following convention on the short-term:
0xAAVSEEEE

At the moment this will only truncate zeros however we could find a migration solution in the future to allow versions higher than 15 and errors for areas with more than 15 services.