Reporting errors from local libraries

[Alan J Rosenthal]

bks at ALFA.berkeley.edu ( Brad Sherman ) writes:
>Where is the actual space for "errno" allocated?
>
>If one has N libraries ...
>and one wishes, say, to set an (extern)
>integer "Localerrno" to provide additional info on failure ...
>where exactly should the single instance
>of "int Localerrno" appear?

In its own .c file, in the one of these libraries considered lowest level
(included by all programs that include any of them).  Actually, I would guess
it would be possible to include this .c file in all N libraries, and it would
be fished out of the first one that needed it.

ajr

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