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C++ in Embedded Systems
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C++ in Embedded Systems

by Amar Mahmutbegović
July 2025
Beginner to intermediate
402 pages
8h 8m
English
Packt Publishing
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Strengthening Firmware – Practical C++ Error Handling Methods

To ensure the proper functioning of firmware, we must handle errors from vendor-specific code, libraries that we are using in a project, and our own code. Error codes are standard error-handling mechanisms in C, and they are also used in C++. However, C++ provides us with other tools, most notably exceptions that are often avoided in embedded projects due to the large binary footprint and non-determinism. Still, we will discuss exceptions in C++ in this chapter to show their benefits in the error-handling process.

Besides exceptions, C++ offers more options for error handling that will also be discussed in this chapter. The goal of this chapter is to understand potential issues ...

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