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From: rml@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bob Lenk)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Follow-up on my Pet Peeve #1473
Message-ID: <5080006@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: Wed, 23-Sep-87 15:56:30 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 23 15:56:30 1987
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>Maybe I am missing something here...  I see how easy it would be to
>insert the code to output the error number, but why bother?  If perror
>doesn't know what the error is, (meaning, the number is greater than sys_nerr),
>what good will knowing the number do you?  WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO LOOK IT UP?

It's quite possible that the program was compiled and linked under an
older system, when sys_nerr was smaller, but run on a newer system that
defines (and presumably documents) new errors.

		Bob Lenk (hpfcla!rml)