build message: errlist.c count 134 inflated to GLIBC_2.12 count 135 (old errno.h?)

[Joseph Myers]

On Thu, 21 May 2015, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:

> why do i get
> 
> *** errlist.c count 134 inflated to GLIBC_2.12 count 135 (old errno.h?)
> 
> build error message?
> 
> sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Versions seems to hardcode 135 errlist size
> while the largest number in kernel asm-generic/errno.h is 133
> 
> is there a reason for the difference?

As I said in <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-ports/2009-11/msg00065.html>, 
my assumption is that it's for future expansion (it needs to be at least 1 
more than the largest errno value, and is 2 larger).

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Joseph S. Myers
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