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

setjmp/longjmp is a useful way to implement an own exception-handling in pure C. http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/announcement.html