On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 3:28 PM Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote:
> > The idea that this would "work" is quite surprising to me. The basic > idea of a function is that it does stuff and then returns you to the > point where you were when the function was called. > > Really ? > In other languages, would you expect that you might call a function, > and have that function reach upward through the call stack and manipulate > your control flow? To name a few :-) In C longjmp() lands you anywhere on the the call path. Any try/catch language will do it too In C family there are even function that never return (see noreturn function attribute) FORTRAN alternate return is fun too. Not counting assembly where you can land anywhere with a ret *reg Basically this is hacker day to day job to return anywhere unexpected :-)
