Those are usually structured HRESULT values, Win32 error codes, and NTSTATUS values. So in a way, they are already "elaborating" the type of error - as well as

Those are usually structured HRESULT values, Win32 error codes, and NTSTATUS values. So in a way, they are already "elaborating" the type of error - as well as a single 32-bit integer in C can "elaborate" over an error, that is, not a lot. For all their faults dotnet and java make it really easy to not mangle up the stack trace.