Deprecate setjmp/longjmp? [was Re: Maybe it's time to get rid of tcpwrappers/tcpd?]

[Zoltan Boszormenyi]

2014-04-28 09:52 keltezéssel, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos írta:
> On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 23:02 +0100, Andrew Price wrote:
>> On 24/04/14 15:13, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>>> We probably should make setjmp()-freeness a requirement for
>>> all code included in Fedora.
>> Would it be worth the effort, and how feasible is it anyway?
> setjmp and longjmp are tools, that one may use in a good or bad way.
> Along the same lines one could argue for dropping programs that use goto
> in Fedora (because everyone knows that goto is bad).

That would mean dropping the kernel, for one... :-)

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> To the point, if a program uses setjmp and longjmp it is often that
> there was no other way to do it. You cannot for example have a
> co-routine/fiber implementation in C without setjmp() and longjmp().
>
> regards,
> Nikos
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