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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Another silly question
Message-ID: <13269@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 22 May 89 18:43:12 GMT
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In article <105998@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> jamesa@arabian.Sun.COM (James D. Allen) writes:
>Any idea why this wasn't done for jmp_buf's?

Originally?  Probably shortsightedness.  In ANSI C?  Backward compatibility.

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