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From: ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pet peeve #1473
Message-ID: <1021@argus.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Aug-87 14:29:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: argus.1021
Posted: Fri Aug 28 14:29:45 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 30-Aug-87 02:02:33 EDT
References: <9001@brl-adm.ARPA> <526@clsib21.UUCP>
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In article <526@clsib21.UUCP>, bhj@clsib21.UUCP (Burt Janz) writes:
> In article <9001@brl-adm.ARPA>, ultra!wayne@ames.arpa (Wayne Hathaway) writes:
> > >>>>  #define STRERR()  ((errno >=0 && errno < sys_nerr) ? \
> > 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?
> Burt Janz


But if the software was properly written I wouldn't have to do this.


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