glibc/sysdeps/generic/_strerror.c

/* Copyright (C) 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU C Library.

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#include <libintl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include "../stdio-common/_itoa.h"

#ifndef HAVE_GNU_LD
#define _sys_errlist sys_errlist
#define _sys_nerr sys_nerr
#endif

/* Set if startup process finished.  */
extern int _dl_starting_up;

/* Return a string describing the errno code in ERRNUM.  */
char *
_strerror_internal (int errnum,
		    char *buf,
		    size_t buflen)
{
  if (errnum < 0 || errnum >= _sys_nerr)
    {
      static const char unk_orig[] = N_("Unknown error ");
      const char *unk = _dl_starting_up ? unk_orig : _(unk_orig);
      const size_t unklen = strlen (unk);
      char *p = buf + buflen;
      *--p = '\0';
      p = _itoa (errnum, p, 10, 0);
      return memcpy (p - unklen, unk, unklen);
    }

  return (char *) (_dl_starting_up ? _sys_errlist[errnum]
		   : _(_sys_errlist[errnum]));
}