mbedtls/include/polarssl/error.h

/**
 * \file error.h
 *
 * \brief Error to string translation
 *
 *  Copyright (C) 2006-2010, Brainspark B.V.
 *
 *  This file is part of PolarSSL (http://www.polarssl.org)
 *  Lead Maintainer: Paul Bakker <polarssl_maintainer at polarssl.org>
 *
 *  All rights reserved.
 *
 *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 *  (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 *  GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
 *  with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
 *  51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
 */
#ifndef POLARSSL_ERROR_H
#define POLARSSL_ERROR_H

/**
 * Error code layout.
 *
 * Currently we try to keep all error codes within the negative space of 16
 * bytes signed integers to support all platforms (-0x0000 - -0x8000). In
 * addition we'd like to give two layers of information on the error if
 * possible.
 *
 * For that purpose the error codes are segmented in the following manner:
 *
 * 16 bit error code bit-segmentation
 *
 * 1 bit  - Intentionally not used
 * 3 bits - High level module ID
 * 5 bits - Module-dependent error code
 * 6 bits - Low level module errors
 * 1 bit  - Intentionally not used
 *
 * Low-level module errors (0x007E-0x0002)
 *
 * Module   Nr  Codes assigned 
 * MPI       7  0x0002-0x000E
 * BASE64    2  0x0010-0x0012
 * ASN1      5  0x0014-0x001C
 * AES       2  0x0020-0x0022
 * CAMELLIA  2  0x0024-0x0026
 * XTEA      1  0x0028-0x0028
 * PADLOCK   1  0x0030-0x0030
 * DES       1  0x0032-0x0032
 * NET      11  0x0040-0x0054
 * CTR_DBRG  3  0x0034-0x0038
 *
 * High-level module nr (3 bits - 0x1...-0x8...)
 * Name     ID  Nr of Errors
 * PEM      1   8
 * X509     2   20
 * DHM      3   6
 * RSA      4   9
 * MD       5   1
 * CIPER    6   1
 * SSL      7   27
 *
 * Module dependent error code (5 bits 0x.08.-0x.F8.)
 */

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

/**
 * \brief Translate a PolarSSL error code into a string representation,
 *        Result is truncated if necessary and always includes a terminating
 *        null byte.
 *
 * \param errnum    error code
 * \param buffer    buffer to place representation in
 * \param buflen    length of the buffer
 */
void error_strerror( int errnum, char *buffer, size_t buflen );

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

#endif /* error.h */