Re: [boost] Operating System API Error Reporting Guidelines

"Beman Dawes" <bdawes@acm.org> writes:

Fresh draft up at www.esva.net/~beman/error_reporting_guidelines.html.

This tries to incorporate concerns, comments, and suggestions from Eric Niebler, Dave Abrahams, and John Maddock.

Further comments welcome,

Did you consider making system_error_code_type a wrapper that will assert upon destruction if its value hasn't been inspected? That will detect one of the most common problems with non-exception error reporing: forgetting to check the error code. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com