Portable uses of jmpbuf's

[Henry Spencer]

In article <4700022 at m.cs.uiuc.edu> wsmith at m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>Some machines define a jmpbuf to be struct { stuff } , while
>others define a jmpbuf to be an array.  In one case, an & is required, 
>while in the other case it is not.

People who define it to be a struct have goofed.  There has been enough
trouble with this that X3J11 specifically defines it to be an array (of
some unspecified type).  Of course, this isn't a lot of comfort if your
compiler isn't X3J11-conforming yet...
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