Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Portable uses of jmpbuf's
Message-ID: <1988Oct12.163350.17495@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <4700022@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 88 16:33:50 GMT

In article <4700022@m.cs.uiuc.edu> wsmith@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>Some machines define a jmpbuf to be struct { stuff } , while
>others define a jmpbuf to be an array.  In one case, an & is required, 
>while in the other case it is not.

People who define it to be a struct have goofed.  There has been enough
trouble with this that X3J11 specifically defines it to be an array (of
some unspecified type).  Of course, this isn't a lot of comfort if your
compiler isn't X3J11-conforming yet...
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