In article <105998 at sun.Eng.Sun.COM> jamesa at arabian.Sun.COM (James D. Allen) writes: >Any idea why this wasn't done for jmp_buf's? Originally? Probably shortsightedness. In ANSI C? Backward compatibility. Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl at haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint