setjmp/longjmp

[Karl Heuer]

In article <39197 at bbn.COM> fkittred at BBN.COM (Fletcher Kittredge) writes:
>Again, this is standard behavior umong modern CPUs and Unix implementations.
>I have found this behavior in DEC, HP and Sun systems.  Both document this
>behavior, and it appears to me that ANSI C and Posix both require this
>behavior.

That's probably the wrong word; it's hard to see how a value can be "required"
to be indeterminate.  Basically, the implementation is allowed to do whatever
is most convenient if you neglect to declare such an object |volatile|.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl at haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint