Good afternoon, I made a command line utility and another colleague needs a library with similar functions (without command line output, etc.., with only a few parameters, like *buffer, offset and r/w parameter).
I'm thinking about the best way to return errors from the library (a few kind of errors can occur, it can be quite detailed providing some conditions are met).
I'm thinking about returning a pointer to an array with strings containing error messages..
Do you have better idea?
- return an integer result success / fail, and provide a "getLastError" function to get the detail.
- return an integer encoding all possible error values
Better?
Well that depends on what you want to achieve and your PoV.
There are choices for sure, but which is best for you is really down to you to decide.
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