> > I personally really dislike the proposed name. It is akin to the abomination
> > where some sort of abbreviation of the types of variables are included also
> > in the variable names. It's useless clutter, at least to me.
> 
> 
> I hate to be jumping in with just a 'me-too' - but I also had a similar
> disliking to the _errptr suffix on the function name here.

As I said to Peter, I am not exactly happy with the naming. I just
couldn't come up with something better. I am totally open for
suggestions here. Let's give ourselves a few days. Maybe inspiration
will hit one of us somehow somewhen.