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Refer to new POSIX:2008 standard.
author Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
date Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:38:13 +0100
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@node longjmp
@section @code{longjmp}
@findex longjmp

POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/longjmp.html}

Gnulib module: ---

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@end itemize

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
The effects of this call are system and compiler optimization dependent,
since it restores the contents of register-allocated variables but not
the contents of stack-allocated variables.
@item
When longjumping out of a signal handler that was being executed on an
alternate stack (installed through @code{sigaltstack}), on FreeBSD, NetBSD,
OpenBSD, you need to clear the @code{SS_ONSTACK} flag in the @code{stack_t}
structure managed by the kernel.
@end itemize