C Tutorial – Error Handling (Exception Handling)

In this C language tutorial we are going to look at error handling. Although C programming does not provide direct support for error handling (also called exception handling), there are ways to do error handling.

Of course the programmer needs to prevent errors during coding and should always test the return values of functions called by the program. A lot of C function calls return a -1 or NULL in case of an error, so quick test on these return values are easily done with for instance an ‘if statement’. More »