On Thu, 2006-Jul-13 11:16:18 +0530, Kamal R. Prasad wrote:
>Im sorry I didn't understand you. setjmp() stores a few register contents

This varies with the CPU - from 48 bytes (i386 and sparc64) to 656
bytes (alpha).  In addition, setjmp() stores the signal mask - and
accessing this requires a system call - which is comparatively
expensive.

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Peter Jeremy

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