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From: Richard <rgrdev_@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: errno
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 23:56:02 +0200
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"Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> writes:

>     My little utility doesn't print an errno value like it should. I have 
> tried to fix it but have failed. I've never really used errno.h but always 
> perror() so what am I doing wrong here.
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <errno.h>
> #include <string.h>
>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>     long int a;
>     errno = 0;
>     if ((a = strtol(argv[1], NULL, 16)) == -1)
>         printf("%s\n", strerror(errno));
>     printf("%d\n", a);
>     return 0;
> }
>

0/10

Up yer game Bill. Even the regs who are chomping at the bit to show off
aren't biting anymore.

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