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just require the programmer to check errno after every function call? /s

• convolvatron 4y ago
  omg. I forgot about that. the one thing even worse than overloading the return domain.
  • kilgnad 4y ago
    Bit my company in the ass recently we uncovered a bug that was causing us to lose 20% of our data for a year. sqlite C libraries apparently still do this. The person who wrote the code was both not very good and had no idea that an error was even occuring.
    • amenghra 4y ago
      Blame the lack of a proper linter instead of blaming the person who wrote the code?
      • kilgnad 4y ago
        There's no linter that checks for a missing if statement and a missing error handler.
• Gibbon1 4y ago
  Strange but true you can create functions where you pass a pointer to an error variable. error_t oops; int x = foo(10, &oops); if(oops) goto whoops; int x = foo(10, 0); // yolo!