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A couple of problem related to frame raising (partly w32)

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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 6468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6468: A couple of problem related to frame raising (partly  w32)
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:14:48 +0200

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 20:23, Lennart Borgman
> <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If there had been error checking this problem should have been
>> detected long ago. I have suggested adding that but the answer so far
>> has not been positive.
>
> You suggest littering the w32 sources with DebPrint calls (or ugly
> macro-equivalents). The thing to do is, now that you've found a case
> where not checking the result value is a bug, to fix the bug.
>
> Yes, adding lots of DebPrint would perhaps help to find such bugs; or
> perhaps it would generate so many useless warnings that would make it
> even harder... There has been no deluge of bug reports related to
> unchecked w32 syscalls that I am aware of.

I found this problem after adding the ugly macro-equivalent.

And yes, the thing now is to try to fix it. But there are several
things missing and I am a bit hesitating to address the problem since
it costs me so much time discussing it. I can't afford that cost.

However if you want to comment on the bad nesting here I would be
glad. Do I misread it?

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