Is it good programming practice to use setjmp and longjmp in C?

Question

I\'m a C++ programmer and used to OO languages with good exception handling.

From what I can understand, setjmp and longjmp are essentially a c-style way to propogate ex

Answer 1

You certainly don't want to use setjmp in C++, as you say that's what exceptions are for. You don't want to use them in C either because it's exceedingly hard to get right. Try very hard to find other solutions.