elm 2.5.3 and glibc 2.1.93

H . J . Lu hjl@lucon.org
Sat Sep 23 09:44:00 GMT 2000


On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 06:37:18PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> My copy of the manual says that:
> 
>      ... you should not use `errno' to determine _whether_ a call
>      failed.  The proper way to do that is documented for each
>      function.  _If_ the call the failed, you can examine `errno'.
> 

Read my code again. It does just that. It only assumes errno is
unchanged when bar () returns 0 since glibc manual says so.


H.J.


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