Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 16:58:10 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Vik Heyndrickx <Vik DOT Heyndrickx AT rug DOT ac DOT be>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: errno constants in <errno.h>
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On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Vik Heyndrickx wrote:

> The real problem start when DOS functions are called in the libc
> routines. DOS extended error codes are in many cases precise enough to
> decide what EXACTLY went wrong, but the way it is current implemented (D
> ->U translated error codes) often make loose a lot of this information.

Other DOS compilers have a global variable called `_dos_errno' or some 
such, which just holds the value of the last DOS error returned.

How about adding this to DJGPP?