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 can get really silly and do continuations:

void step_1(int a, int b, int c, void (*step_2)(int), void (*err)(void *) ) {
     if (!c) {
         err("c was 0");
     } else {
         int r = a + b/c;
         step_2(r);
     }
}

This probably isn't actually what you want to do, but it is how many functional programming languages are used, and even more often how they model their code for optimization.