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_longjmp
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/_longjmp.html
Gnulib module: —
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
Note: A future revision of POSIX later than the 2008/2009 one may drop the
functions _setjmp
and _longjmp
. Still, in 2008, on all
systems which have _setjmp
, it is the fastest way to save the
registers but not the signal mask (up to 30 times faster than setjmp
on some systems).