errno.3: Note that error numbers vary somewhat across architectures

Added after a patch from Wesley Aptekar-Cassels that proposed
to add error numbers to the text.

Reported-by: Wesley Aptekar-Cassels <w.aptekar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.BR EWOULDBLOCK ,
which may be the same.
.PP
On Linux, the error numbers that correspond to each symbolic name
vary somewhat across architectures.
Therefore, numeric values are not included in the list of
error names below.
.PP
.\" POSIX.1 (2001 edition) lists the following symbolic error names. Of
.\" these, \fBEDOM\fP and \fBERANGE\fP are in the ISO C standard. ISO C
.\" Amendment 1 defines the additional error number \fBEILSEQ\fP for