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authorBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2010-11-09 21:57:58 +0100
committerBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2010-11-09 21:57:58 +0100
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@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ OpenBSD 4.0, OSF/1 5.1, NonStop Kernel, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw.
This function fails to return a string for out-of-range integers on
some platforms:
Solaris 8.
+(This is not a POSIX violation, but can still cause bugs because most programs
+call @code{strerror} without setting and testing @code{errno}.)
@end itemize
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: