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Re: include incompatibilities
- To: "J. J. Farrell" <jjf at bcs dot org dot uk>
- Subject: Re: include incompatibilities
- From: Thomas dot Wolff at icn dot siemens dot de
- Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 13:50:03 +0200 (MEST)
- Cc: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
J. J. Farrell wrote:
: > From: towo@computer.org
: >
: > ...
: > Also, there are some reasons I did not use strerror().
: > One is, strerror may depend on setlocale but setlocale is not available
: > on older systems.
:
: I don't understand what you mean by this. If a hosted environment
: conforms to C89 then it has strerror(). There is no dependency on
: other routines.
This locale stuff is all still very confusing and highly non-portable.
On Sun, the man pages of strerror and perror mention
> SEE ALSO
> gettext(3I), perror(3C), setlocale(3C)
although I couldn't manage to actually get any effect on strerror with
setlocale.
On Linux, strerror does depend on the environment variable LANG, so it's
not a constant mapping function as some applications might desire,
especially if they add their own, non-localized, text output. I don't
know if there is a library function corresponding to this dependency,
I had thought it would have to be setlocale.
Thomas Wolff
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