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38.Dd June 4, 1993
39.Dt SETJMP 3
40.Os
41.Sh NAME
42.Nm sigsetjmp ,
43.Nm siglongjmp ,
44.Nm setjmp ,
45.Nm longjmp ,
46.Nm _setjmp ,
47.Nm _longjmp ,
48.Nm longjmperror
49.Nd non-local jumps
50.Sh SYNOPSIS
51.Fd #include <setjmp.h>
52.Ft int
53.Fn sigsetjmp "sigjmp_buf env" "int savemask"
54.Ft void
55.Fn siglongjmp "sigjmp_buf env" "int val"
56.Ft int
57.Fn setjmp "jmp_buf env"
58.Ft void
59.Fn longjmp "jmp_buf env" "int val"
60.Ft int
61.Fn _setjmp "jmp_buf env"
62.Ft void
63.Fn _longjmp "jmp_buf env" "int val"
64.Ft void
65.Fn longjmperror void
66.Sh DESCRIPTION
67The
68.Fn sigsetjmp ,
69.Fn setjmp ,
70and
71.Fn _setjmp
72functions save their calling environment in
73.Fa env .
74Each of these functions returns 0.
75.Pp
76The corresponding
77.Fn longjmp
78functions restore the environment saved by the most recent
79invocation of the respective
80.Fn setjmp
81function.
82They then return so that program execution continues as if the corresponding
83invocation of the
84.Fn setjmp
85call had just returned the value specified by
86.Fa val ,
87instead of 0.
88.Pp
89Pairs of calls may be intermixed; i.e., both
90.Fn sigsetjmp
91and
92.Fn siglongjmp
93as well as
94.Fn setjmp
95and
96.Fn longjmp
97combinations may be used in the same program.
98However, individual calls may not \(em e.g., the
99.Fa env
100argument to
101.Fn setjmp
102may not be passed to
103.Fn siglongjmp .
104.Pp
105The
106.Fn longjmp
107routines may not be called after the routine which called the
108.Fn setjmp
109routines returns.
110.Pp
111All accessible objects have values as of the time
112.Fn longjmp
113routine was called, except that the values of objects of automatic storage
114invocation duration that do not have the
115.Li volatile
116type and have been changed between the
117.Fn setjmp
118invocation and
119.Fn longjmp
120call are indeterminate.
121.Pp
122The
123.Fn setjmp Ns / Ns Fn longjmp
124function pairs save and restore the signal mask while
125.Fn _setjmp Ns / Ns Fn _longjmp
126function pairs save and restore only the register set and the stack (see
127.Xr sigmask 2 ) .
128.Pp
129The
130.Fn sigsetjmp Ns / Ns Fn siglongjmp
131function pairs save and restore the signal mask if the argument
132.Fa savemask
133is non-zero.
134Otherwise, only the register set and the stack are saved.
135.Pp
136In other words,
137.Fn setjmp Ns / Ns Fn longjmp
138are functionally equivalent to
139.Fn sigsetjmp Ns / Ns Fn siglongjmp
140when
141.Fn sigsetjmp
142is called with a non-zero
143.Fa savemask
144argument.
145Conversely,
146.Fn _setjmp Ns / Ns Fn _longjmp
147are functionally equivalent to
148.Fn sigsetjmp Ns / Ns Fn siglongjmp
149when
150.Fn sigsetjmp
151is called with a zero-value
152.Fa savemask .
153.Pp
154The
155.Fn sigsetjmp Ns / Ns Fn siglongjmp
156interfaces are preferred for maximum portability.
157.Sh ERRORS
158If the contents of the
159.Fa env
160are corrupted or correspond to an environment that has already returned,
161the
162.Fn longjmp
163routine calls the routine
164.Fn longjmperror 3 .
165If
166.Fn longjmperror
167returns the program is aborted (see
168.Xr abort 3 ) .
169The default version of
170.Fn longjmperror
171prints the message
172.Dq Li longjmp botch
173to standard error and returns.
174User programs wishing to exit more gracefully should write their own
175versions of
176.Fn longjmperror .
177.Sh SEE ALSO
178.Xr sigaction 2 ,
179.Xr sigaltstack 2 ,
180.Xr signal 3
181.Sh STANDARDS
182The
183.Fn setjmp
184and
185.Fn longjmp
186functions conform to
187.St -ansiC .
188The
189.Fn sigsetjmp
190and
191.Fn siglongjmp
192functions conform to
193.St -p1003.1-90 .
194.Sh CAVEATS
195Historically, on
196.At V ,
197the
198.Fn setjmp Ns / Ns Fn longjmp
199functions have been equivalent to the
200.Bx
201.Fn _setjmp Ns / Ns Fn _longjmp
202functions and do not restore the signal mask.
203Because of this discrepancy, the
204.Fn sigsetjmp Ns / Ns Fn siglongjmp
205interfaces should be used if portability is desired.
206