Merge pull request #3176 from aggarg/development

Add support for const error description strings

include/mbedtls/error.h

@@ -127,6 +127,36 @@ extern "C" {
  */
 void mbedtls_strerror( int errnum, char *buffer, size_t buflen );
 
+/**
+ * \brief Translate the high-level part of an Mbed TLS error code into a string
+ *        representation.
+ *
+ * This function returns a const pointer to an un-modifiable string. The caller
+ * must not try to modify the string. It is intended to be used mostly for
+ * logging purposes.
+ *
+ * \param error_code    error code
+ *
+ * \return The string representation of the error code, or \c NULL if the error
+ *         code is unknown.
+ */
+const char * mbedtls_high_level_strerr( int error_code );
+
+/**
+ * \brief Translate the low-level part of an Mbed TLS error code into a string
+ *        representation.
+ *
+ * This function returns a const pointer to an un-modifiable string. The caller
+ * must not try to modify the string. It is intended to be used mostly for
+ * logging purposes.
+ *
+ * \param error_code    error code
+ *
+ * \return The string representation of the error code, or \c NULL if the error
+ *         code is unknown.
+ */
+const char * mbedtls_low_level_strerr( int error_code );
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif