That's not the correct syntax for the ckd_ operations. They take 3 operands, the first being a pointer to an integer where the result should be stored. And they return a bool, which you need to check in a conditional. If you're just going to throw out the bool and ignore the overflows, why bother with checked operations in the first place?

Yeah, I realize that now. That's even worse. So you'll have to write something like

    int aa,twoa,twoab,bb,aaplustwoab,aaplustwoabplusbb;
    if (ckd_mul(a,a,&aa)) { return error; }
    if (ckd_mul(2,a,&twoa)) { return error; }
    // …
    if (ckd_add(aaplustwoab,bb,aaplustwoabplusbb)) { return error; }
    return aaplustwoabplusbb;

So ergonomic!

> If you're just going to throw out the bool and ignore the overflows, why bother with checked operations in the first place?

I'd expect the functions to return the result on success and crash on failure. Or better, raise an exception, but C doesn't have exceptions…

Why not just write:

    bool aplusb_sqr(int* c, int a, int b) {
        return c && ckd_add(c, a, b) && ckd_mul(c, *c, *c);
    }

Obviously you could do that in this case, I just wanted to come up with a complicated formula.