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17 .TH ARES_STRERROR 3 "25 July 1998"
19 ares_strerror \- Get the description of an ares library error code
24 .B const char *ares_strerror(int \fIcode\fP, char **\fImemptr\fP)
29 function gets the description of the ares library error code
31 returning the result as a NUL-terminated C string. A pointer to
32 allocated data necessary to compose the error description may be
33 stored in the variable pointed to by
35 It is the caller's responsibility to invoke
36 .BR ares_free_errmem (3)
37 with the value of that variable when the error description is no
40 .BR ares_free_errmem (3)
42 Greg Hudson, MIT Information Systems
44 Copyright 1998 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.