diff --git a/sys/src/avutil/error.rs b/sys/src/avutil/error.rs
index 352d11a..cce458c 100644
--- a/sys/src/avutil/error.rs
+++ b/sys/src/avutil/error.rs
@@ -1,18 +1,27 @@
 use libc::{c_char, c_int, size_t};
 
+// Note: FFmpeg's AVERROR and AVUNERROR are conditionally defined based on
+// whether EDOM is positive, claiming that "Some platforms have E* and errno
+// already negated". This can be traced to a commit in 2007 where "some
+// platforms" were specifically identified as BeOS (so maybe also Haiku?):
+// https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/8fa36ae09dddb1b639b4df5d505c0dbcf4e916e4
+// constness is more valuable than BeOS support, so if someone really needs it,
+// send a patch with cfg_attr.
+
 #[inline(always)]
-pub fn AVERROR(e: c_int) -> c_int {
+pub const fn AVERROR(e: c_int) -> c_int {
     -e
 }
 
 #[inline(always)]
-pub fn AVUNERROR(e: c_int) -> c_int {
+pub const fn AVUNERROR(e: c_int) -> c_int {
     -e
 }
 
 macro_rules! FFERRTAG {
-	($a:expr, $b:expr, $c:expr, $d:expr) =>
-		(-MKTAG!($a, $b, $c, $d) as c_int)
+    ($a:expr, $b:expr, $c:expr, $d:expr) => {
+        -MKTAG!($a, $b, $c, $d) as c_int
+    };
 }
 
 pub const AVERROR_BSF_NOT_FOUND: c_int = FFERRTAG!(0xF8, b'B', b'S', b'F');