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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: setjmp/longjmp question
Message-ID: <11945@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 3 Mar 89 21:06:03 GMT
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Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
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>>>Would longjmp() clober all local variables...
>>It could.
>Even if the local variable is an array?

Yes, even then it could.  For example, an auto array with small dimension
might be cached into registers if all of the associated address arithmetic is
visible to the compiler at compile-time.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint