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From: Tim Rentsch
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Subject: Re: Sort of trivial code challenge - may be interesting to you anyway
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:51:08 -0800
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Michael S writes:
> On Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:20:33 -0800
> Tim Rentsch wrote:
>
>> My rule is not to post my own code until others have made a good
>> faith effort on the challenge.
>
> One question before I start thinking: is setjmp/longjmp also diallowed?
setjmp and longjmp are both part of the standard C library,
so yes calling them is allowed. (The C standard calls setjmp
a macro, but the Synopsis describes it using a function
interface, so it seems natural to count it as a function.)