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Re: Gas vs irregular files

Ian Lance Taylor <ian@wasabisystems.com> writes:

> do this:
>
>       f_in = fopen (filename, FOPEN_RT);
>
>   ...
>
>   if (f_in == NULL)
>     {
>       if (errno == ENOENT)
>         as_bad (_("%s: No such file"), filename);
>       else
>         {
>           as_bad (_("can't open %s for reading"), file_name);
>           as_perror ("%s", file_name);
>         }
>       return;
>     }

Why making ENOENT a special case anyway?  What's wrong with as_perror?

Andreas.

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