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authorChris Wilson <chris+github@qwirx.com>2015-12-24 23:21:21 +0000
committerChris Wilson <chris+github@qwirx.com>2015-12-24 23:21:21 +0000
commit482d628ec0070f11d4ca5a4ad1b5e00323e18563 (patch)
tree5aceee38748a0443e60e0c36706b32186ccb4447
parentbfb39368b61dd6bf67d85ea9fd2d1126f2b48722 (diff)
Improve handing of error messages that Windows won't decode for some reason.
-rw-r--r--lib/win32/emu.cpp5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/win32/emu.cpp b/lib/win32/emu.cpp
index 18624eeb..c78fe6b2 100644
--- a/lib/win32/emu.cpp
+++ b/lib/win32/emu.cpp
@@ -536,7 +536,10 @@ std::string GetErrorMessage(DWORD errorCode)
if (chars == 0 || pMsgBuf == NULL)
{
- return std::string("failed to get error message");
+ std::ostringstream oss;
+ oss << "Failed to get error message for error code " << errorCode << ": error " <<
+ GetLastError();
+ return oss.str();
}
// remove embedded newline