On Wed, 29 May 2002, Hong Zhang wrote: > > > I used to be at Sun. I knew those warnings too. If we use longjmp > > > carefully, we can make it. In the worst case, write our own version. > > > > ..Or we could use setcontext/getcontext, could we not? > > The setcontext/getcontext will be much worse than setjmp/longjmp. The > are more platform specific than longjmp. And they don't work well inside > signal handler, just like longjmp.
I am assuming that we will _not_ use exceptions from within a signal handler, as per Dan's statements. > When I was working on HotSpot JVM, we had some problems with getcontext. > They work 99.99% of time. We added many workaround for the .01% cases. I > believe the Solaris guys have been improving the code. I am not sure of > the current status. Was that inside of a signal handler or just in general usage? - D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
