From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9631 invoked by alias); 6 Feb 2006 18:23:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 9310 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Feb 2006 18:23:23 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (HELO zproxy.gmail.com) (64.233.162.201) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 06 Feb 2006 18:23:20 +0000 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x3so1109433nzd for ; Mon, 06 Feb 2006 10:23:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.222.48 with SMTP id u48mr4375390nzg; Mon, 06 Feb 2006 10:23:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.37.2.63 with HTTP; Mon, 6 Feb 2006 10:23:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8f2776cb0602061023i51cb1687q420fbe1ed1202192@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 18:23:00 -0000 From: Jim Blandy To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: RFA: Support Windows extended error numbers in safe_strerror In-Reply-To: <20060206173550.GB22947@nevyn.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060203215455.GA3501@nevyn.them.org> <20060206173550.GB22947@nevyn.them.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-02/txt/msg00129.txt.bz2 Much better. I agree completely about using alternative mechanisms when autoconf is a bad fit. It's icky to redefine strerror, but given that Windows is returning errno codes that are above sys_nerr, one good ick deserves another.