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From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Pet peeve #1473
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Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 04:42:01 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 27 04:42:01 1987
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> > 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?

I'm sure he's heard of that; however, this won't tell you a damn thing.  He
doesn't want to know where the macros are expanded; he wants to know what the
value of "errno" is when the program is E X E C U T E D.
	Guy Harris
	{ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy
	guy@sun.com