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V543. It is suspicious that value 'X' i…
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V543. It is suspicious that value 'X' is assigned to the variable 'Y' of HRESULT type.

Nov 19 2010

The analyzer detected a potential error related to handling a variable of the HRESULT type.

HRESULT is a 32-bit value divided into three different fields: severity code, device code and error code. Such special constants as S_OK, E_FAIL, E_ABORT, etc. serve to handle HRESULT-values while the SUCCEEDED and FAILED macros are used to check HRESULT-values.

The V543 warning is generated if the analyzer detects an attempt to write value -1, true or false into a variable of the HRESULT type. Consider this sample:

HRESULT h;
...
if (bExceptionCatched)
{
  ShowPluginErrorMessage(pi, errorText);
  h = -1;
}

Writing of value "-1" is incorrect. If you want to report about some unspecified error, you should use value 0x80004005L (Unspecified failure). This constant and the like are described in "WinError.h". This is the correct code:

if (bExceptionCatched)
{
  ShowPluginErrorMessage(pi, errorText);
  h = E_FAIL;
}

References:

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You can look at examples of errors detected by the V543 diagnostic.