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Re: LYNX-DEV How do I clear errno?
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T.E.Dickey |
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Re: LYNX-DEV How do I clear errno? |
Date: |
Sat, 4 Apr 1998 07:08:23 -0500 (EST) |
>
> >
> > I know this is not really 100% Lynx relevant ... but, how on earth does
> > one clear errno after say a failed strtol () .. clearerr is to be
> > associated with a file pointer?
>
> errno = 0;
>
> But as said elsewhere, no-one would normally do this; you may even find that
> it becomes set by library calls, with no error propagated to the top level.
not even that - for VAX C (there's some workaround in vile, for example),
DEC did something like this
#define errno vaxc$errno()
and you cannot assign to that.
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Thomas E. Dickey
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