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Re: Cygwin64: errno.h error values
- From: Kai Tietz <ktietz70 at googlemail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 09:34:28 +0200
- Subject: Re: Cygwin64: errno.h error values
- References: <CAO1jNwu2PdOk3UEKPOUhjozXO49webt6bLCvU-ojA2wmBd-ZoA at mail dot gmail dot com>
2013/5/3 Jan Nijtmans wrote:
> 2013/5/3 Christopher Faylor:
>> We make ABSOLUTELY no guarantees that our errnos will match any other
>> system's. You can't expect that you will be able to use Cygwin errno's
>> in pure Windows applications. We really don't care if our errnos match
>> those of Windows. Sorry.
>
> No need for a sorry. I understand. I just felt obliged to report it, because in
> the (unlikely) case that such a problem arises a major release is the
> only moment that such a thing can be fixed. This would be a chance
> to have a single errno.h shared by mingw, mingw-w64, wine and cygwin
> (which would then be a superset of Microsoft's).
>
> The mingw-w64 cross-compiler in Cygwin64 (x64_64-w64-mingw32)
> is currently lacking "errno.h",
Absoultely an absurdity. Of course mingw-w64 provides an errno.h
header. Not sure where you expect headers are and what content by
your expectations they shall have, but I would recomment that you
might try before starting to do fural guessings.
Regards,
Kai
PS: The native toolchain and cygwin don't share most of the
C-runtime-headers by good reasons.
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