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HRESULT is defined in a system header file as a 32-bit, signed integer [1] and is often treated opaquely as an integer, especially in code that consumes a function that returns HRESULT. A HRESULT value consists of the following separate items: Severity: indicates whether the function succeeded or failed
An exception handling mechanism allows the procedure to raise an exception [2] if this precondition is violated, [1] for example if the procedure has been called on an abnormal set of arguments. The exception handling mechanism then handles the exception. [3] The precondition, and the definition of exception, is subjective.