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perror

From cppreference.com
< c | io
Defined in header <stdio.h>
void perror( const char *s );

Prints to stderr the contents of the null-terminated character string pointed to by s (unless s is a null pointer), followed by the two characters ": ", followed by the implementation-defined error message describing the error code currently stored in the system variable errno (identical to the output of strerror(errno)), followed by '\n'.

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s - pointer to a null-terminated string with explanatory message

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(none)

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returns a text version of a given error code
(function) [edit]