fixup bogus SetLastError()

[Marcus Meissner]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 08:31:06PM +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 11:11:23AM -0700, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> > Andreas Mohr <a.mohr at mailto.de> writes:
> > 
> > > objects/gdiobj.c really has no business dealing with SetLastError().
> > > SetLastError() is a mechanism to communicate errors to external programs,
> > > so it should definitely not be used for highly internal functions.
> > 
> > You didn't include the gdiobj.c patch, but I disagree with it
> Hmm, strange. I did a diff with the files fetched from a pre-arranged
> file list, and I'm damn sure that I had included that file there :-\
> 
> > anyway... There can be many good reasons for setting last error in
> > internal functions; for instance setting it inside GDI_GetObjPtr
> > avoids having to set it in every single caller. And in the very rare
> > case where this is not what we want, the caller can always set it to
> > another value.
> Now that's where I disagree !
> The caller can *not* always set it to another value.
> If it does and the program intends to read the LastError of a *previously*
> executed API that failed, then the LastError will be reset even though
> it shouldn't have been !

There are only _some_ cases that do this.

> (I know, programs that don't read the LastError immediately after function
> return are braindead, but then we're writing for the Windows platform,
> so we have lots of braindead programs anyway, right ? ;-)

> In short: the SetLastError behaviour needs to match Windows behaviour very,
> very closely.
> And IMHO GDI_GetObjPtr() is such a widely used function that this will set
> LastError 6 in every case of a NULL handle, so this will spoil a lot of
> innocent error settings...
> Of course one could argue that it should be the calling function that should
> be fixed, then (to not pass a NULL handle to GDI_GetObjPtr).
> This would be SelectObject() in this case, BTW.
> 
> What to do ?

We need to evaluate LastError behaviour by function anyway.

So if a function misbehaves, or sets the last error erroneously, fix it.
Otherwise just do not care.

Ciao, Marcus