Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!w-colinp
From: w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: What is the domain of strerror()?
Message-ID: <1249@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 6 Apr 89 06:19:47 GMT
Reply-To: w-colinp@microsoft.uucp (Colin Plumb)
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The December 7 draft I have doesn't say anything about what the valid arguments
to strerror() are.  It says that strerror() maps the error number passed to
it to an error string, but I can't find any description of what a valid
error number is.  Any int?  Anything that any library function might put into
errno?  Any E* macro defined in <errno.h>?  sys_nerr (described in H&S) seems
to have vanished, so I don't see how I can impose any tighter bounds.

(Also, H&S uses CLK_TCK where the dpANS I've got uses CLOCKS_PER_SEC.
I presume CLOCKS_PER_SEC is the pANS name?)
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	-Colin (uunet!microsoft!w-colinp)

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