.\" -*-nroff-*-
.TH report 3 "20 June 1999" mLib
.SH NAME
report \- report errors
.\" @moan
.\" @die
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B "#include <mLib/report.h>"

.BI "void moan(const char *" f ", ...);"
.BI "void die(int " status ", const char *" f ", ...);"
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B moan
function emits a message to the standard error stream consisting of the
program's name (as read by the
.B quis
function; see
.BR quis (3) for details),
a colon, a space, and the
.BR printf -style
formatted string
.I f
followed by a newline.  This is a handy way to report nonfatal errors in
a program.
.PP
The
.B die
function emits a message to the standard error stream, just as for
.B moan
above, and then calls the
.B exit
function with argument
.I status
to halt the program.  This is a handy way to report fatal errors in a
program.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR exit (3),
.BR quis (3),
.BR mLib (3).
.SH AUTHOR
Mark Wooding, <mdw@nsict.org>