compiler/posixc/perror.c

   1 /*
   2     Copyright © 1995-2013, The AROS Development Team. All rights reserved.
   3     $Id$
   4
   5     C99 function perror().
   6 */
   7
   8 #include <errno.h>
   9 #include <string.h>
  10
  11 /*****************************************************************************
  12
  13     NAME */
  14 #include <stdio.h>
  15
  16         void perror (
  17
  18 /*  SYNOPSIS */
  19         const char *string
  20         )
  21
  22 /*  FUNCTION
  23         looks up the language-dependent error message string affiliated with an error
  24         number and writes it, followed by a newline, to the standard error stream.
  25
  26     INPUTS
  27         string - the string to prepend the error message. If NULL only the error
  28                  message will be printed, otherwise the error message will be
  29                  separated from string by a colon.
  30     RESULT
  31
  32     NOTES
  33
  34     EXAMPLE
  35
  36     BUGS
  37
  38     SEE ALSO
  39
  40     INTERNALS
  41
  42 ******************************************************************************/
  43 {
  44     if (string)
  45     {
  46         fputs(string, stderr);
  47         fputs(": ", stderr);
  48     }
  49
  50     fputs(__posixc_strerror(errno), stderr);
  51     fputs("\n", stderr);
  52
  53 } /* perror */
  54