Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 3/4] net/net: Convert parse_host_port() to Error

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 28/06/2017 07:51, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> The gethostbyname() return a null pointer if an error occurs, and the h_errno
>> variable holds an error number. herror() and hstrerror() can prints the error
>> message associated with the current value of h_errno, but hstrerror() returns
>> the string type is good for passing the error message to Error. So I'd prefer
>> the hstrerror.
>>
>> As for the portability of hstrerror(), sorry, I'm also not sure, but in this
>> case I tested, it's OK. so I want to use hstrerror() for a while, if there 
>> are
>> any problem that can be fixed later. Do you think it can be done?
>
> Standard first portability question: does Windows provide it?

Nope.  But it does have gai_strerror.

Paolo