"Sticky states" work too; IIRC, it's how FPU exceptions on the x87 work. But I was responding to the upthread comment that "exceptions can come from any possibl

"Sticky states" work too; IIRC, it's how FPU exceptions on the x87 work. But I was responding to the upthread comment that "exceptions can come from any possible function call depth, whereas in C you only have to deal with error return codes." Sticky states still have that "issue." After all, they're just an alternative to try{}catch{} blocks.