@itemize
@item
This function is missing on some platforms:
-NetBSD 3.0, HP-UX 11.23, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 9, mingw.
+NetBSD 3.0, Minix 3.1.8, HP-UX 11.23, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 9, mingw, MSVC 9.
@item
glibc and Cygwin have an incompatible version of this function. The
POSIX compliant code
platforms:
AIX 5.1, OSF/1 5.1.
@item
-When this function fails, it returns -1 and sets @code{errno}, instead of
+When this function fails, it returns @minus{}1 and sets @code{errno}, instead of
returning the error number, on some platforms:
glibc 2.12 with @code{-D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112L}, AIX 6.1, OSF/1 5.1.
@item
@item
This function reports failure for @code{strerror_r(0, buf, len)},
although POSIX requires this to succeed, on some platforms:
-FreeBSD 8.2
+FreeBSD 8.2.
+@item
+This function produces a different string for @code{0} than
+@code{strerror} on some platforms:
+Mac OS X 10.5.
@item
This function always fails when the third argument is less than 80 on some
platforms:
When the value is not in range or the buffer is too small, this
function fails to leave a NUL-terminated string in the buffer on some
platforms:
-glibc 2.13, FreeBSD 8.2.
+glibc 2.13, FreeBSD 8.2, Solaris 10.
+@item
+When the value is out of range but the buffer is too small, this
+function does not always return the longest possible string on some
+platforms:
+OpenBSD 4.7.
@end itemize
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
-@item
-Calling this function can clobber the buffer used by @code{strerror}
-on some platforms:
-Cygwin 1.7.9.
@end itemize