perror

  #include <cstdio>
  void perror( const char *str );

The perror() function prints str and an implementation-defined error message corresponding to the global variable errno. For example:

  char* input_filename = "not_found.txt";
  FILE* input = fopen( input_filename, "r" );
  if( input == NULL ) {
    char error_msg[255];
    sprintf( error_msg, "Error opening file '%s'", input_filename );
    perror( error_msg );
    exit( -1 );
  }

The the file called not_found.txt is not found, this code will produce the following output:

  Error opening file 'not_found.txt': No such file or directory