diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 41c12834ff..14d1f608a9 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+Thu Mar 14 16:59:09 2013  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* configure.in (rb_cv_function_name_string): macro for function name
+	  string predefined identifier, __func__ in C99, or __FUNCTION__ in
+	  gcc.
+
+	* file.c (rb_sys_fail_path): use RUBY_FUNCTION_NAME_STRING.
+
 Thu Mar 14 14:12:34 2013  NARUSE, Yui  <naruse@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* file.c (rb_sys_fail_path): use rb_sys_fail_path0 only on GCC.
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 1ed1ffa267..d166664a7f 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1374,6 +1374,22 @@ fi
 
 RUBY_APPEND_OPTION(XCFLAGS, -DRUBY_EXPORT)
 
+AC_CACHE_CHECK(for function name string predefined identifier,
+    rb_cv_function_name_string,
+    [rb_cv_function_name_string=no
+    RUBY_WERROR_FLAG([
+	for func in __func__ __FUNCTION__; do
+	    AC_TRY_LINK([@%:@include <stdio.h>],
+			[puts($func);],
+			[rb_cv_function_name_string=$func
+			break])
+	done
+    ])]
+)
+if test "$rb_cv_function_name_string" != no; then
+    AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(RUBY_FUNCTION_NAME_STRING, [$rb_cv_function_name_string])
+fi
+
 dnl Check whether we need to define sys_nerr locally
 AC_CHECK_DECLS([sys_nerr], [], [], [$ac_includes_default
 @%:@include <errno.h>])
diff --git a/file.c b/file.c
index 14636d34c9..20673cbbb8 100644
--- a/file.c
+++ b/file.c
@@ -102,8 +102,8 @@ int flock(int, int);
 #define STAT(p, s)	stat((p), (s))
 #endif
 
-#ifdef __GNUC__
-# define rb_sys_fail_path(path) rb_sys_fail_path0(__func__, path)
+#ifdef RUBY_FUNCTION_NAME_STRING
+# define rb_sys_fail_path(path) rb_sys_fail_path0(RUBY_FUNCTION_NAME_STRING, path)
 NORETURN(static void rb_sys_fail_path0(const char *,VALUE));
 static void
 rb_sys_fail_path0(const char *func_name, VALUE path)