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| author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2008-06-07 13:49:10 +0200 |
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| committer | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2008-06-07 13:49:10 +0200 |
| commit | 6c66c78cf660406b603dd24772afab13f6e885c9 (patch) | |
| tree | 0cf7467bf4be722801887c63157f379c82f0da54 /doc/posix-functions/_setjmp.texi | |
| parent | e1759498c209171a542543db3b70d6e56f9f0a44 (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-6c66c78cf660406b603dd24772afab13f6e885c9.tar.gz | |
Fix doc about _setjmp.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/posix-functions/_setjmp.texi | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/_setjmp.texi b/doc/posix-functions/_setjmp.texi index 7c1dc320f6..abf1825224 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/_setjmp.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/_setjmp.texi @@ -15,7 +15,10 @@ Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @item This function is missing on some platforms: Solaris 2.5.1. - -@item -This function is obsolete; use @code{sigsetjmp} instead. @end itemize + +Note: A future revision of POSIX later than the 2008/2009 one may drop the +functions @code{_setjmp} and @code{_longjmp}. Still, in 2008, on all +systems which have @code{_setjmp}, it is the fastest way to save the +registers but not the signal mask (up to 30 times faster than @code{setjmp} +on some systems). |