From: arne@vajhoej.dk

On 9/19/2025 8:35 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Sep 2025 08:26:43 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 9/18/2025 10:17 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>> Does perror(3) take care of this for you?
>>
>> I do not have any intention of wrap perror - it is a very specific
>> composite function.
>
> Then the problem is that you have to repeat that long sequence of code in
> every project.

If a big application were to use this, then they will have to add
a library function for it or more likely they already have one.

But the implementation will likely be different for different
places.

Target: SYS$OUTPUT, SYS$ERROR, syslog or something else.
Format: single text lines, JSON, XML or something else.
Information: any combination of string argument, errno text,
time, code location, system and maybe a few more.

The chance that a VMS Pascal application will standardize
on perror style (SYS$ERROR, single text line, string argument +
errno text) seems pretty slim to me.

Arne

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