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Re: curl errors to symbol string functions? was Re: libcurl smtp error list?

From: Gisle Vanem <gisle.vanem_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 07:33:21 +0200

Richard Gray wrote:

> we can add the symbol
>
>   XYZ037 Frambastat could not be initialized, errno = 226 (EADDRINUSE)
>
> which is more meaningful, particularly given that the higher errno values are different on different platforms.  We
> could use strerror(), but it's messages are much longer and sometimes not quite right in the context of an error we get.

One would need to generate such an errno_table[]
for all supported (and unforeseen) compilers/targets.
Since most 'Ex' values are not unique among targets.
How can libcurl do that best? An included errno-file
for each target?

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Received on 2018-06-30