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NAME
setjmp, longjmp - non-local goto
SYNTAX
#include <setjmp.h>
int setjmp (env)
jmp_buf env;
void longjmp (env, val)
jmp_buf env;
int val;
DESCRIPTION
These functions are useful for dealing with errors and
interrupts encountered in a low-level subroutine of a
program.
Setjmp saves its stack environment in env (whose type,
jmp_buf, is defined in the <setjmp.h> header file) for later
use by longjmp. It returns the value 0.
Longjmp restores the environment saved by the last call of
setjmp with the corresponding env argument. After longjmp
is completed, program execution continues as if the
corresponding call of setjmp (which must not itself have
returned in the interim) had just returned the value val.
Longjmp cannot cause setjmp to return the value 0. If
longjmp is invoked with a second argument of 0, setjmp will
return 1. All accessible data had values as of the time
longjmp was called.
SEE ALSO
signal(2).
WARNING
If longjmp is called even though env was never primed by a
call to setjmp, or when the last such call was in a function
which has since returned, absolute chaos is guaranteed.