August 10, 2007

Nerd Inside Joke Of The Day

At work I’m doing some old school C programming, which made me think of the OS class I took at BU. Just for shits and giggles I looked up the man page for longjmp(). The best part of the page, by far, is the NOTES section:

longjmp() and siglongjmp() make programs hard to understand and maintain. If possible an alternative should be used.

Understatement of the millennium (and the last millennium too).