14.6 Irrecoverable hard failure

An irrecoverable hard failure is an irrecoverable Libmarpa application programming failure that has an error code associated with it. Libmarpa attempts to behave as predictably as possible in the face of a hard failure, but once an irrecoverable failure occurs, the behavior of a Libmarpa application is undefined.

In the event of an irrecoverable failure, there are no application behaviors. The diagnostic behavior for a hard failure is as described for the method that detects the hard failure. At a minimum, this diagnostic behavior will be returning from the method that detects the hard failure with the return value specified for hard failure, and setting the error code as specified for hard failure.