1 /* xstrerror.c -- jacket routine for more robust strerror() usage.
2 Fri Jun 16 18:30:00 1995 Pat Rankin <rankin@eql.caltech.edu>
3 This code is in the public domain. */
7 @deftypefn Replacement char* xstrerror (int @var{errnum})
9 Behaves exactly like the standard @code{strerror} function, but
10 will never return a @code{NULL} pointer.
19 #include "libiberty.h"
23 #if !defined (__STRICT_ANSI__) && !defined (__HIDE_FORBIDDEN_NAMES)
24 extern char *strerror (int,...);
25 #define DONT_DECLARE_STRERROR
29 #ifndef DONT_DECLARE_STRERROR
30 extern char *strerror (int);
33 /* If strerror returns NULL, we'll format the number into a static buffer. */
35 #define ERRSTR_FMT "undocumented error #%d"
36 static char xstrerror_buf[sizeof ERRSTR_FMT + 20];
38 /* Like strerror, but result is never a null pointer. */
41 xstrerror (int errnum)
45 char *(*vmslib_strerror) (int,...);
47 /* Override any possibly-conflicting declaration from system header. */
48 vmslib_strerror = (char *(*) (int,...)) strerror;
49 /* Second argument matters iff first is EVMSERR, but it's simpler to
50 pass it unconditionally. `vaxc$errno' is declared in <errno.h>
51 and maintained by the run-time library in parallel to `errno'.
52 We assume that `errnum' corresponds to the last value assigned to
53 errno by the run-time library, hence vaxc$errno will be relevant. */
54 errstr = (*vmslib_strerror) (errnum, vaxc$errno);
56 errstr = strerror (errnum);
59 /* If `errnum' is out of range, result might be NULL. We'll fix that. */
62 sprintf (xstrerror_buf, ERRSTR_FMT, errnum);
63 errstr = xstrerror_buf;