Re: coding style
"Jim Johnson" wrote:
is this C style coding?
I don't seem to see much C++ code in this way.
is this a bad programming practice?
code seem ugly coding this way.
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CATCHERROR(m_Cnn,0)
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#define CATCHERROR(ptr,a) catch(_com_error &e)\
{\
ErrorHandler(e,m_ErrStr);\
ptr=NULL;\
return a;\
}
There is not enough information to say conclusively whether this
code is ugly or not. Although generally macros are evil, still
there are situatons where macros may be helpful.
From the code you provided I can see that `m_ErrStr' variable is
used. It suggests that the `CATCHERROR' macro is only a part of a
bigger exception handling machinery. Also, it is unclear what's
the purpose of the `ptr' parameter of the macro. It seems that
other than being nullified it's not used. If it is some kind of
cleanup, then it's definitely ugly C-style. One should use
destructors to clean resources that can be leaked during an
exception.
It looks that the `CATCHERROR' macro is used on a COM module
boundary to catch internal exceptions and translate them into
return values. Then probably it would be wiser to return actual
HRESULT of an error code (retrievable via e.Error() call) instead
of arbitrary zero value.
Alex
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