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On Sun, 02 May 2004, Thomas R. Sibley wrote:
> Juerd wrote on 05/02/04 10:05:
>> Error Number: -2147221501 0x80040003
>
> I wonder how many possibly errors they have in their system for an
> error number that large (or small, considering it's seemingly
> negative). I mean, honestly, a 10 digit error number?
>
> (Unless the number actually means something other than used as an ID.)
>
> And what's up with that hex? Maybe I'm being ignorant, but doing perl
> -e 'print 0x80040003' doesn't reveal the same number as the decimal
> before it.
I hate the fact that the "COM" error reporting standard was painful
enough to work with that I can still remember this much of it.
The highest bits indicate the error "disposition"; 0x8 as the lead value
says that this, like every other error in the universe, is a "fatal,
unrecoverable error".
IIRC, the 0x40003 value - which is the actual error code - is one of the
half dozen "generic, unspecified error" values defined my MicroSoft.
So, this says that some COM function call resulted in an unrecoverable,
undefined error.
Ahh, error "handling".
Daniel
--
The English have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
-- Malcom Bradbury, _Eating People is Wrong_
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