Re: preprocessor/7312: bootstrap failure due to invalid use of errno

[Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>]

The following reply was made to PR preprocessor/7312; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
To: Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk>
Cc: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>,  gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org,
	  gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org,  gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: preprocessor/7312: bootstrap failure due to invalid use of
 errno
Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 15:24:56 -0700

 Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk> writes:
 
 > Bruno Haible wrote:-
 >
 >> Zack Weinberg writes:
 >> > At that point in the code,
 >> > nothing has been done to give errno a meaningful value, so ->err_no
 >> > should just be cleared to 0.
 >> 
 >> Well, I thought (and still think) that 'errno' here means the error
 >> status from cpp_simplify_path. See the comments at the head of the
 >> function cpp_simplify_path.
 >> 
 >> I also think that validate_pch() should not ignore this error status.
 >
 > I agree that Bruno's original patch is the right one.
 
 Would you please check it in, then?  I'm in the middle of a messy
 unrelated project, and not in a position to test stuff.
 
 zw