31/10/2018 18:19, Ferruh Yigit:
> rte_strerror uses strerror_r(), and strerror_r() has two version of it.
> - XSI-compliant version, (_POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L) && ! _GNU_SOURCE
> - GNU-specific version
>
> Those two has different return types, so the exiting return type check
> is not correct for GNU-specific version.
>
> And this is causing failure in errno_autotest unit test.
>
> Adding different implementation for FreeBSD and Linux.
>
> Fixes: 016c32bd3e3d ("eal: cleanup strerror function")
> Cc: sta...@dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@intel.com>
> ---
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_errno.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_errno.c
> default:
> +#ifdef RTE_EXEC_ENV_BSDAPP
> if (strerror_r(errnum, ret, RETVAL_SZ) != 0)
> snprintf(ret, RETVAL_SZ, "Unknown error%s %d",
> sep, errnum);
> +#else
> + /*
> + * _GNU_SOURCE version, error string is not always
> + * strored in "ret" buffer, need to use return value
> + */
> + ret = strerror_r(errnum, ret, RETVAL_SZ);
> +#endif
Why not use the return value in both cases?
Why not writing an error message in Linux case?
