Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling

From	Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling
Date	2023-09-28 16:05 -0700
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<8634yxj3uh.fsf@linuxsc.com> (permalink)
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Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> writes:

> On 2023-09-28, Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> wrote:
>
>> Ben Bacarisse to Anton Shepelev:
>>
>>> To nit-pick a bit, in C, there is no need to declare
>>> anything if you want to ignore an "output parameter".
>>> Taking strtod as a (poor) example:
>>>
>>>   double d = strtod(str, &(char *){0});
>>
>> Ah, but this is one of the strangest and craziest
>> innovations of post-modern C -- the ability to pass a
>> pointer (as it were) to a literal, rather than to a proper
>> variable.
>
> Two things:
>
> Firstly, it's not a true literal because it is a mutable object in
> automatic storage.

It most definitely is a literal, both in the original meaning
of the word, and also as used in the ISO C standard.

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Libraries using longjmp for error handling (was: Re: More on NNTP testing) Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> - 2023-09-27 22:52 +0000
  Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling (was: Re: More on NNTP testing) Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2023-09-28 08:19 +0800
    Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-09-28 02:18 +0100
      Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> - 2023-09-28 22:30 +0000
        Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2023-09-28 22:33 +0000
          Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2023-09-29 01:41 +0300
            Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2023-09-28 23:45 +0000
          Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2023-09-28 17:35 -0700
            Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2023-09-29 16:49 +0200
      Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2023-09-28 18:24 -0700
        Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-09-29 03:19 +0100
          Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2023-09-29 07:46 -0700
            Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-09-29 21:02 +0100
              Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2023-09-29 21:56 -0700
                Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-10-01 00:06 +0100
                Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2023-09-30 20:35 -0700
                Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2023-10-01 14:44 +0300
                Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-10-01 15:45 +0100
                Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2023-10-01 09:28 -0700
                Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-10-01 20:49 +0100
                Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2023-10-02 02:31 -0700
                Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-10-02 23:55 +0100
                Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2023-10-03 05:01 -0700
            Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2023-09-29 23:58 +0300
              Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2023-10-01 02:52 -0700
                Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2023-10-01 14:33 +0300
  Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-09-28 01:48 +0100
  Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling (was: Re: More on NNTP testing) Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2023-09-28 05:11 +0000
    Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling (was: Re: More on NNTP testing) Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2023-09-28 06:26 +0000
  Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling (was: Re: More on NNTP testing) Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2023-09-28 16:02 +0300
    Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-09-28 14:44 +0100
      Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2023-09-28 18:31 +0300
        Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2023-09-28 16:43 +0000
          Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2023-09-28 17:00 +0000
            Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2023-09-28 17:16 +0000
            Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-09-28 19:38 +0100
          Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2023-09-28 16:05 -0700
            Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2023-09-29 00:26 +0000
              Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2023-09-28 23:20 -0700
            Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2023-09-28 18:31 -0700
              Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-09-29 03:24 +0100
                Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2023-09-29 03:12 +0000
              Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2023-09-28 22:45 -0700
                Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2023-09-29 12:02 +0000
                Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2023-09-29 08:10 -0700
                Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-09-29 17:03 +0100
                Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2023-09-29 10:15 -0700
                Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2023-09-29 17:17 +0000
                Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2023-09-29 18:53 +0000
                Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2023-09-29 18:11 +0300
                Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2023-09-29 10:20 -0700
                Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2023-09-29 11:30 -0700
                Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2023-09-29 18:31 +0000
        Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-09-28 19:27 +0100
          Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2023-09-28 20:24 +0000
            Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-09-28 22:23 +0100
              Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2023-09-28 15:43 -0700
              Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2023-09-28 23:11 +0000
                Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2023-09-29 17:23 +0300
                Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2023-09-29 08:19 -0700
        Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2023-09-28 21:57 +0200
  Re: Libraries using longjmp for error handling Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-09-30 09:37 +0100

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