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| author | Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala@poste.it> | 2010-05-03 21:56:21 +0000 |
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| committer | Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala@poste.it> | 2010-05-03 21:56:21 +0000 |
| commit | 441ea0ce91d9df7e653c7a9598a62f230cf808c0 (patch) | |
| tree | 43e3af316d02d84b3f0c43332679c09296cfe1d9 /libavutil/error.h | |
| parent | 17d5959998c4f523abb4fde0dd0bb7df562219d8 (diff) | |
Make av_strerror() print an error message mentioning the error code
number if strerror_r() did not succeed for whatever reason.
This avoids the need for the application to fill the string in case
strerror_r() fails, for example because the error code is not known.
Originally committed as revision 23015 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk
Diffstat (limited to 'libavutil/error.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | libavutil/error.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libavutil/error.h b/libavutil/error.h index abf9a57d70..a1b9ccc050 100644 --- a/libavutil/error.h +++ b/libavutil/error.h @@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ /** * Puts a description of the AVERROR code errnum in errbuf. * In case of failure the global variable errno is set to indicate the - * error. + * error. Even in case of failure av_strerror() will print a generic + * error message indicating the errnum provided to errbuf. * * @param errbuf_size the size in bytes of errbuf * @return 0 on success, a negative value otherwise |