POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Error mesage : Re: Error mesage Server Time
7 Sep 2024 21:17:12 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Error mesage  
From: Darren New
Date: 2 May 2008 12:54:00
Message: <481b4728@news.povray.org>
Jim Henderson wrote:
> That was my thinking; the MS consultants who were there were absolutely 
> beside themselves trying to figure out what was going on.

FWIW, that usually happens when a function returns an error indication 
but doesn't set the secondary information that says what error it was. 
Or, in C terminology, the function returned -1 but didn't assign 
anything to errno.   Yet one more reason to dislike C. :-)

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."


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