Any good idioms for error handling in straight C programs?

Question

Getting back in to some C work.

Many of my functions look like this:

int err = do_something(arg1, arg2, arg3, &result);

With th

Answer 1

You should check out what DirectX has done with the HRESULT - it's basically this. There's a reason that the exception came into being. Alternatively, if you run on Win32, they have SEH which runs in C programs.