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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.
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glibc and Cygwin have an incompatible version of this function. The
POSIX compliant code
platforms:
AIX 5.1, OSF/1 5.1.
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-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.
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This function produces a different string for @code{0} than
@code{strerror} on some platforms:
-MacOS X 10.5.
+Mac OS X 10.5.
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This function always fails when the third argument is less than 80 on some
platforms: