compiler/clib/perror.c

   1 /*
   2     Copyright © 1995-2003, The AROS Development Team. All rights reserved.
   3     $Id$
   4
   5     ANSI C function perror().
   6 */
   7
   8 #include "errno.h"
   9 #include "string.h"
  10 /*****************************************************************************
  11
  12     NAME */
  13 #include <stdio.h>
  14
  15         void perror (
  16
  17 /*  SYNOPSIS */
  18         const char *string
  19         )
  20
  21 /*  FUNCTION
  22         looks up the language-dependent error message string affiliated with an error
  23         number and writes it, followed by a newline, to the standard error stream.
  24
  25     INPUTS
  26         string - the string to prepend the error message. If NULL only the error
  27                  message will be printed, otherwise the error message will be
  28                  separated from string by a colon.
  29     RESULT
  30
  31     NOTES
  32
  33     EXAMPLE
  34
  35     BUGS
  36
  37     SEE ALSO
  38
  39     INTERNALS
  40
  41 ******************************************************************************/
  42 {
  43     if (string)
  44     {
  45         fputs(string, stderr);
  46         fputs(": ", stderr);
  47     }
  48
  49     fputs(strerror(errno), stderr);
  50     fputs("\n", stderr);
  51
  52 } /* perror */
  53