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<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 style="clear: both">C Results</h1></div></div></div>
<p>The C macro API header <code>&lt;boost/outcome/experimental/result.h&gt;</code> has some macros for working with any kind of Result:</p>
<dl>
<dt><code>BOOST_OUTCOME_C_DECLARE_RESULT(ident, T, E)</code>
<dd>Declares to C a <code>basic_result<T, E></code> type uniquely
identified by <code>ident</code>. <code>T</code> is available at the
member variable <code>.value</code>, and <code>E</code> is available
at the member variable <code>.error</code>. If you call this from within
C++, make SURE it is not within a <code>extern "C"</code> block!
<dt><code>BOOST_OUTCOME_C_RESULT(ident)</code>
<dd>A reference to a previously declared <code>result</code> type with
unique <code>ident</code>.
<dt><code>BOOST_OUTCOME_C_RESULT_HAS_VALUE(r)</code>
<dd>Evaluates to 1 (true) if the input <code>result</code> has a value.
<dt><code>BOOST_OUTCOME_C_RESULT_HAS_ERROR(r)</code>
<dd>Evaluates to 1 (true) if the input <code>result</code> has an error.
<dt><code>BOOST_OUTCOME_C_RESULT_ERROR_IS_ERRNO(r)</code>
<dd>Evaluates to 1 (true) if the input <code>result</code>'s error value
is a code in the POSIX <code>errno</code> domain.
</dl>
<p>The above let you work, somewhat awkwardly, with any C-compatible
<code>basic_result&lt;T, E&gt;</code>. <code>basic_result&lt;T, E&gt;</code> is trivially copyable and
standard layout if its <code>T</code> and <code>E</code> are both so, and it has the C layout:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre class="chroma"><code class="language-c++" data-lang="c++"><span class="k">struct</span> <span class="n">cxx_result_</span><span class="cp">##ident
</span><span class="cp"></span><span class="p">{</span>
<span class="k">union</span>
<span class="p">{</span>
<span class="n">T</span> <span class="n">value</span><span class="p">;</span>
<span class="n">E</span> <span class="n">error</span><span class="p">;</span>
<span class="p">};</span>
<span class="kt">unsigned</span> <span class="n">flags</span><span class="p">;</span>
<span class="p">};</span>
</code></pre></div>
<p>Note that this layout is different to that of <a href="../../experimental/c-api/from-c.html"><code>BOOST_OUTCOME_C_DECLARE_STATUS_CODE</code></a>
as the C++ <code>result</code> has a different layout if <code>E</code> is a status code.</p>
</div><p><small>Last revised: July 17, 2024 at 17:54:05 &#43;0100</small></p>
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