On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 16:46 -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > For the record, strerror_r() isn't implemented in VC++, but it does appear > to be a drop in replacement for strerror_s(). > > BTW, when you say that all the error messages are a line long, are you > speaking pragmatically or from a standards view? I'm really trying to write > this "by the books."
He's speaking pragmatically, I believe. The standards place no restraints on the size of an error string; but as a quality-of-implementation issue it'd be fairly broken to go beyond roughly that limit. I'd feel fairly safe, for instance, in using a 256-char buffer to store the result in: if it gets truncated to 255 chars, well so be it. :) -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
