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Re: provide __xpg_strerror_r
On Feb 9 21:15, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 05:20:59PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> >+/* Newlib's <string.h> provides declarations for two strerror_r
> >+ variants, according to preprocessor feature macros. It does the
> >+ right thing for GNU strerror_r, but its __xpg_strerror_r mishandles
> >+ a case of EINVAL when coupled with our strerror() override.*/
> > #if 0
>
> Can't we get rid of this now?
I agree. We should simply implement strerror_r by ourselves, even if
it's identical to newlib's strerror_r. In the long run it's less
puzzeling to have all the strerror variants in one place.
Corinna
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