Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: longjmp out of signal handler (was Re: alloca() portability)
Message-ID: <1990Nov24.230918.20@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <14377@smoke.brl.mil> <9122@ncar.ucar.edu> <27537@mimsy.umd.edu> <1990Nov21.181358.8660@zoo.toronto.edu> <257@smds.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 90 23:09:18 GMT

In article <257@smds.UUCP> rh@smds.UUCP (Richard Harter) writes:
>I assume this is from the ANSI standard.  From this I gather that in
>fact there is no guaranteed portable way to longjmp out of a signal
>handler.  From this I infer (perhaps incorrectly) there is no way
>in ANSI C to do what I want that is safe.  On the other hand it is
>*probably* the case that the code schema I posted will work fine.

Correct.
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