Talk:Error code
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This sentence needs to be translated into English "Error codes are often process global variables, such as errno in C. " It's a wee bit cryptic for the average reader. --Lee Hunter 14:54, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- I've been a geek too long (started programming in 1980, at age 9) so it really makes my brain hurt to try to think like "the average reader". That phrase "process global variable" is probably worthy of several paragraphs. It also begs the question of just how global errno is on, say, bastardized "cooperatively mulitprocessing" machines like 16 bit Windows, which ran all processes in essentially the same address space. I've tried very hard to repress all memories of working under 16 bit Windows... I'll do some thinking on it and see if I can come up with a lower level explanation. scot 16:21, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)