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The C++ functions presented in the foregoing chapters embody mechanisms for analyzing whether during the execution of a called C function an error or other situation has occurred that requires a particular response or at least a warning. The functions test whether the passed variables have been initialized and evaluate the return value of the called C functions:
O hateful error, melancholy’s child!
—Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
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Welschenbach, M. (2013). Error Handling. In: Cryptography in C and C++. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-5099-9_16
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