1 /* Declaration for error-reporting function
2 Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software
4 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
6 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
7 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
8 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
9 (at your option) any later version.
11 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
12 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
13 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
14 GNU General Public License for more details.
16 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
17 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
23 /* The __attribute__ feature is available in gcc versions 2.5 and later.
24 The __-protected variants of the attributes 'format' and 'printf' are
25 accepted by gcc versions 2.6.4 (effectively 2.7) and later.
26 We enable __attribute__ only if these are supported too, because
27 gnulib and libintl do '#define printf __printf__' when they override
28 the 'printf' function. */
29 # if __GNUC__ < 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 7)
30 # define __attribute__(Spec) /* empty */
38 /* Print a message with `fprintf (stderr, FORMAT, ...)';
39 if ERRNUM is nonzero, follow it with ": " and strerror (ERRNUM).
40 If STATUS is nonzero, terminate the program with `exit (STATUS)'. */
42 extern void error (int __status
, int __errnum
, const char *__format
, ...)
43 __attribute__ ((__format__ (__printf__
, 3, 4)));
45 extern void error_at_line (int __status
, int __errnum
, const char *__fname
,
46 unsigned int __lineno
, const char *__format
, ...)
47 __attribute__ ((__format__ (__printf__
, 5, 6)));
49 /* If NULL, error will flush stdout, then print on stderr the program
50 name, a colon and a space. Otherwise, error will call this
51 function without parameters instead. */
52 extern void (*error_print_progname
) (void);
54 /* This variable is incremented each time `error' is called. */
55 extern unsigned int error_message_count
;
57 /* Sometimes we want to have at most one error per line. This
58 variable controls whether this mode is selected or not. */
59 extern int error_one_per_line
;