Try to make sure that we have the XSI version of strerror_r

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JosJuice 2017-05-13 11:22:30 +02:00
parent 540ee18966
commit 5b7f99e57a
1 changed files with 18 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -2,8 +2,20 @@
// Licensed under GPLv2+
// Refer to the license.txt file included.
#include <cstddef>
// The code in GetErrorMessage can't handle some systems having the
// GNU version of strerror_r and other systems having the XSI version,
// so we undefine _GNU_SOURCE here in an attempt to always get the XSI version.
// We include cstring before all other headers in case cstring is included
// indirectly (without undefining _GNU_SOURCE) by some other header.
#ifdef _GNU_SOURCE
#undef _GNU_SOURCE
#include <cstring>
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#else
#include <cstring>
#endif
#include <cstddef>
#include <errno.h>
#include "Common/CommonFuncs.h"
@ -24,8 +36,11 @@ std::string GetLastErrorMsg()
FormatMessageA(FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM, nullptr, GetLastError(),
MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT), err_str, buff_size, nullptr);
#else
// Thread safe (XSI-compliant)
if (strerror_r(errno, err_str, buff_size))
// We assume that the XSI-compliant version of strerror_r (returns int) is used
// rather than the GNU version (returns char*). The returned value is stored to
// an int variable to get a compile-time check that the return type is not char*.
const int result = strerror_r(errno, err_str, buff_size);
if (result != 0)
return "";
#endif