When setjmp is first called, it returns the value 0. If longjmp is then called, naming the same environment as the call to setjmp, control is returned to the setjmp call as if it had returned normally a second time. The return value of setjmp in this second return is the value you supply in the longjmp call. To preserve the true value of setjmp, the function calling setjmp must not be called again until the associated longjmp is called. The setjmp function preserves the hardware general-purpose registers, and the longjmp function restores them. After a longjmp, all variables have their values as of the time of the longjmp except for local automatic variables not marked volatile. These variables have indeterminate values. The setjmp and longjmp functions rely on the OpenVMS condition- handling facility to effect a nonlocal goto with a signal handler. The longjmp function is implemented by generating a C RTL specified signal and allowing the OpenVMS condition- handling facility to unwind back to the desired destination. The C RTL must be in control of signal handling for any VSI C image. For VSI C to be in control of signal handling, you must establish all exception handlers through a call to the VAXC$ESTABLISH function (rather than LIB$ESTABLISH). NOTE The C RTL provides nonstandard decc$setjmp and decc$fast_ longjmp functions for Alpha and Integrity server systems. To use these nonstandard functions instead of the standard ones, a program must be compiled with the __FAST_SETJMP or __UNIX_SETJMP macros defined. Unlike the standard longjmp function, the decc$fast_longjmp function does not convert its second argument from 0 to 1. After a call to decc$fast_longjmp, a corresponding setjmp function returns with the exact value of the second argument specified in the decc$fast_longjmp call.