Re: Allowing printf("%m") only where it actually works

On 2018-May-27, Thomas Munro wrote:

> Out of curiosity I tried adding a GetLastError variable for Windows
> (to hide the function of that name and break callers) to the earlier
> experimental patch (attached).  I had to give it an initial value to
> get rid of a warning about an unused variable (by my reading of the
> documentation, __pragma(warning(suppress:4101)) can be used in macros
> (unlike #pragma) and should shut that warning up, but it doesn't work
> for me, not sure why).  Of course that produces many errors since we
> do that all over the place:
> 
> https://ci.appveyor.com/project/macdice/postgres/build/1.0.184

Ouch.

This seems to say that we oughta assign GetLastError() to saved_errno
during errstart, then use %m in the errmsg() instead.

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