Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 11:39:38 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD Architecture Mailing List <arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Header files with enums instead of defines? Message-ID: <20041223193938.GF19624@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20041222090855.GO79646@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> References: <20041222010143.GS53357@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20041222090855.GO79646@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
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Peter Jeremy wrote this message on Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 20:08 +1100:
> An alternative suggestion for you: Write a gdb macro which takes an
> int and prints it as an errno. Something like a shorthand version of:
> print (enum { EPERM=1, ENOENT=2, ..., EILSEQ=86})xerrno
> should work.
>
> You would probably write a [insert scripting language of choice] script
> to convert <errno.h> into the appropriate gdb macro.
If you have a running program context (in userland), just do:
print (char *)strerror(errnovalue)
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