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[Chris Torek]

In article <551 at philmds.UUCP> leo at philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
>How about using setjmp() and longjmp()? Isn't that a - fairly - portable way
>to get/restores the registers?

Alas, no.  It may not save and restore *any* registers, especially
given the statement in the dpANS that local variables must be declared
`volatile' to get any guarantee from longjmp().
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