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charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2025-11-25 at 11:20 -0300, Wander Lairson Costa wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 9:46=E2=80=AFPM Crystal Wood = wrote: > >=20 > > On Mon, 2025-11-17 at 15:41 -0300, Wander Lairson Costa wrote: >=20 > > > + > > > + if (timerlat_bpf_restart_tracing()) { > > > + err_msg("Error restarting BPF trace\n")= ; > > > + return -1; > > > + } > >=20 > > [insert rant about not being able to use exceptions in userspace code i= n > > the year 2025] > >=20 >=20 > I actually find exceptions an anti-pattern. Modern languages like Zig, > Go and Rust came back to error returning. Maybe I'm behind the times, but I see exceptions and error returns as complementary... not everything should be an exception and I can certainly see how they could be overused in an anti-pattern way, but they're nice for getting useful information out rather than "something failed" without having to add a bunch of debug prints. -Crystal