Re: C Error Number to Symbol

On 20/3/25 09:44, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

This is exactly what I intended with the original post, so this pas source is very interesting to me.

 It is just two lib$sys_getmsg calls with flags to get
facility and identity and then it is cross fingers and
hope the symbolic name follow convention of facility$_identity.
 Arne
 

Yes I see, I would have never known about the effect of the flag field and would have plowed ahead and broken down the default message with strtok to get what I wanted. This is far more efficient. It will certainly work for all the RMS return codes so that's mainly what I need.
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