Re: Gas vs irregular files

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian at wasabisystems dot com>]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

> Ian Lance Taylor <ian@wasabisystems.com> writes:
> 
> > do this:
> >
> >       f_in = fopen (filename, FOPEN_RT);
> >
> >   ...
> >
> >   if (f_in == NULL)
> >     {
> >       if (errno == ENOENT)
> >         as_bad (_("%s: No such file"), filename);
> >       else
> >         {
> >           as_bad (_("can't open %s for reading"), file_name);
> >           as_perror ("%s", file_name);
> >         }
> >       return;
> >     }
> 
> Why making ENOENT a special case anyway?  What's wrong with as_perror?

As far as I can tell, the original reporter didn't like the fact that
the error message said ``No such file or directory.''  I'm pointing
out a better way to fix that particular problem.

Ian