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How to report errors in C

C doesn't support exceptions, but we can store error messages in structs. This document compares 3 different strategies of error reporting.

typedef enum {
    FILE_NOT_FOUND_ERROR,
    INVALID_FILE_FORMAT_ERROR,
    ...

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How to do error reporting in GLib

C doesn't support exceptions but GLib has its own error reporting system. It's kind of verbose but it works ok.

Let's pretend we were making a JSON parser library, here's how the error reporting would work. (This example was actually derived from json-glib).

First we create an enum to represent different error codes.

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</script>

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