setjmp/lonjmp (was: vinum warning)

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Thursday,  3 February 2005 at 23:31:22 +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>
> The longjmp debugging is not needed soon, I'm working on removing
> the use of longjmp completely.

I'm interested in the general aversion to setjmp()/longjmp().  In my
opinion they're superior to the alternatives.  What objections do
people have to them (NIH does count :-).

Greg
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