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

[Andreas Schwab]

Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com> writes:

> why do i get
>
> *** errlist.c count 134 inflated to GLIBC_2.12 count 135 (old errno.h?)
>
> build error message?

It's because of a bug in sysdeps/gnu/errlist-compat.awk which caused
ERR_MAX to be off-by-one.  The bug was fixed in glibc-2.15-617-gff3d51e,
but the ABI had to be preserved.

> 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?

The next added errno will fix that.

Andreas.

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