Make av_strerror() return -1 even in the case when av_strerror_r() is

not defined.

This allows applications to check if av_strerror() cannot provide a
meaningful representation for the provided error code, without having
to actually check the filled string.

Originally committed as revision 23031 to svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk

3 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/libavutil/avutil.h b/libavutil/avutil.h
index b2c49283b0..e9e07b92fd 100644
--- a/libavutil/avutil.h
+++ b/libavutil/avutil.h
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 
 #define LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MAJOR 50
 #define LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MINOR 15
-#define LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MICRO  0
+#define LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MICRO  1
 
 #define LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_INT   AV_VERSION_INT(LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MAJOR, \
                                                LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_MINOR, \
diff --git a/libavutil/error.c b/libavutil/error.c
index 3dd38a351c..b6d6019061 100644
--- a/libavutil/error.c
+++ b/libavutil/error.c
@@ -36,8 +36,10 @@ int av_strerror(int errnum, char *errbuf, size_t errbuf_size)
     } else {
 #if HAVE_STRERROR_R
         ret = strerror_r(AVUNERROR(errnum), errbuf, errbuf_size);
+#else
+        ret = -1;
 #endif
-        if (!HAVE_STRERROR_R || ret < 0)
+        if (ret < 0)
             snprintf(errbuf, errbuf_size, "Error number %d occurred", errnum);
     }
 
diff --git a/libavutil/error.h b/libavutil/error.h
index a1b9ccc050..13a9a35930 100644
--- a/libavutil/error.h
+++ b/libavutil/error.h
@@ -64,7 +64,8 @@
  * error message indicating the errnum provided to errbuf.
  *
  * @param errbuf_size the size in bytes of errbuf
- * @return 0 on success, a negative value otherwise
+ * @return 0 on success, a negative value if a description for errnum
+ * cannot be found
  */
 int av_strerror(int errnum, char *errbuf, size_t errbuf_size);