Re: make signal text descriptions

2003-10-29 Thread J. Grant
Hello, Thank you for your email. on the 29/10/03 00:03, Paul D. Smith wrote: %% J. Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jg Could the signals and errors that Make displays include the text jg description of them? The same way that other programs do not jg return the errno.h value, but the text

Re: make signal text descriptions

2003-10-29 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% J. Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jg ok, I've cc [EMAIL PROTECTED], so maybe someone can tell me if jg signal numbers are decoded. Would you include this internally? or jg use a lib etc? We use the system service to translate the code if the system provides it (many UNIX systems

Re: make signal text descriptions

2003-10-29 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:07:39 + From: J. Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] ok, I've cc [EMAIL PROTECTED], so maybe someone can tell me if signal numbers are decoded. Would you include this internally? or use a lib etc? The signal names are decoded if the underlying library supports them.

Re: make signal text descriptions

2003-10-29 Thread J. Grant
Hello, We use the system service to translate the code if the system provides it (many UNIX systems provide strsignal() for example). If not we have a predefined set of signals we translate, but if the signal is not a member of that predefined list it's not translated. ok, I wonder if win32 has

Re: make signal text descriptions

2003-10-29 Thread J. Grant
Hi Earnie, ok, I wonder if win32 has extra signals, this code 127, could these be supported for win32 ports? #define SIGINT 2 /* Interactive attention */ #define SIGILL 4 /* Illegal instruction */ #define SIGFPE 8 /* Floating point error */ #define

Re: make signal text descriptions

2003-10-29 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:02:55 + From: J. Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] I noticed on this list list they talk about it being a failed exec: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-06/msg00674.html I doubt if this is a signal. It's more probably an error code from a library function that