What is a good programming pattern for handling return values from stdio file writing functions

Question

I\'m working on some code that generates a lot of

ignoring return value of ‘size_t fwrite(const void*, size_t, size_t, FILE*)’, declared with attribute warn         


        

Answer 1

Ok, given that I'm looking for a c solution (no exceptions), how about:

void safe_fwrite(data,size,count,fp) {
   if (fwrite(data,size,count,fp) != count) {
      printf("[ERROR] fwrite failed!\n");
      fclose(fp);
      exit(4);
   }
}

And then in my code I have:

safe_fwrite (&blah, sizeof (blah), 1, fp);
// ... more code ...
safe_fwrite (&foo, sizeof (foo), 1, fp);
// ... more code ...