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

Apart from the answers posted so far, I would like to add that the setjmp in C allow the implementation of tail recursiveness in an elegant way.

So yes, not only it's a good practice but this is the only portable elegant way to do some things in C.