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From: bhj@clsib21.UUCP (Burt Janz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pet peeve #1473
Message-ID: <526@clsib21.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Aug-87 14:05:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: clsib21.526
Posted: Wed Aug 26 14:05:16 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 28-Aug-87 06:23:01 EDT
References: <9001@brl-adm.ARPA>
Organization: CLSI Inc., Newtonville, MA
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Summary: Then, what is "cpp" for?

In article <9001@brl-adm.ARPA>, ultra!wayne@ames.arpa (Wayne Hathaway) writes:
> >>>>  #define STRERR()  ((errno >=0 && errno < sys_nerr) ? \
> >>>>                     sys_errlist[errno] : "Unknown error")
> 
> What's wrong with this?  Simply that it doesn't tell you what the
> unknown value of errno *IS*!  When  I first saw code like this in
>       Wayne Hathaway                  ultra!wayne@Ames.ARPA

Hmmmm... ever heard of running cpp by itself, grokking the output,
and seeing where the macros are expanded?

...works for me...

Burt Janz