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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: alloca (was: libpw.a)
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Date: 29 Apr 89 15:03:47 GMT
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Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <10939@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> scs@adam.pika.mit.edu (Steve Summit) writes:
>longjmp is evil.

Well, at least it's worse than "goto".
Some people have found reasonable (albeit obscure) uses for longjmp.
I don't use it myself.