RE: [Xen-devel] Re: Error reporting capabilities for libxc

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Do we actually need pointers? I'd much rather go with __thread.
> 
> Well, we need a char buffer to store the error message, since that has
much
> more useful info than the error code alone. I could always just do a
fixed
> 200 byte buffer, and truncate anything longer than this which would
also
> actually remove the annoying OOM problem in copying the error message.

Would we be better off returning an error code and a set of parameters,
requiring a call-back into the library to get the string? 

It's worth thinking about future language localisation here too.

Ian 

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