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From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] windows-nat: Decode system error numbers
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:58:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201111091658.00913.pedro@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83obwlgsc5.fsf@gnu.org>

On Wednesday 09 November 2011 16:42:50, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 12:02:40 +0000
> > From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@codesourcery.com>
> > 
> > +  const char *msg = "Unspecified error.";
> > +  unsigned long err;
> > +  char buf[1025];
> > +  size_t size;
> > +
> > +  if (ok)
> > +    return;
> > +
> > +  err = GetLastError();
> > +  size = FormatMessage (FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM
> > +			| FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS,
> > +			NULL,
> > +			err,
> > +			MAKELANGID (LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT),
> > +			buf, (sizeof (buf) - 1) / sizeof (TCHAR), NULL);
> 
> Will this DTRT with Cygwin, which AFAIK wants the wide versions of the
> APIs?  Is, for example, "char buf[1025];" appropriate in that case?

Yeah, if UNICODE is defined, FormatMessage maps to FormatMessageW and 
buf will be filled with a wide string, though I'm not sure
if __USEWIDE implies UNICODE.

gdbserver/win32-low.c has strwinerror for this.  It'd be nice if
windows-nat.c also abstracted this equally or similarly.

-- 
Pedro Alves


  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-09 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-09 12:03 Maciej W. Rozycki
2011-11-09 15:25 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-11-09 16:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-09 16:58   ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2011-11-09 17:03     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-09 17:26       ` Pedro Alves
2011-11-09 17:07     ` Corinna Vinschen
2011-11-13 23:47       ` Christopher Faylor

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