A academic research on how errors are handled by developers in programming languages that do not support Exceptions, using mainly examples from ISO C.
- A brief recap over Exceptions
- Return codes
- Boolean codes
- Error codes
- Error flags
- Using the return value's domain
- Embedded error indicator in value
<errno.h><setjmp.h>- Code design choices with return codes
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