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Re: (fixed patch) "%E" formatting for the humans


Mumit Khan wrote:
> [...]
> +                * NOTE: Currently there is no policy for how long the
> +                * the buffers are, and looks like 256 is a smallest one
> +                * (dlfcn.cc). Other than error 1395 (length 213) and
> +                * error 1015 (length 249), the rest are all under 188
> +                * characters, and so I'll use 189 as the buffer length.
> +                * For those longer error messages, FormatMessage will
> +                * return FALSE, and we'll get the old behaviour such as
> +                * ``Win32 error 1395'' etc.
> +                */
> +               const int bufferlen = 189;
> [...]
> Regards,
> Mumit

Consider other native language versions of the system. E.g. german
expressions are longer than english one's in the most cases.

Regards,
Corinna