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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 13:15:35 +0000
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Subject: Re: errno constants in <errno.h>
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

> 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?

It sounds better than having an errno too different than the UNIX one. And 
perhaps (if no so much overhead is involved) we can even have both errno styles 
selectable through some variable. I mean a variable to select if we will use 
translated or not values of errno. What about that?

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