Why does the setjmp / longjmp crash crash on MSVC when it was not in MinGW?

Question

I want to use setjmp()/ longjmp()to implement a coroutine system. Then I decided to encode a small .c file to check it out. In MinGW, this is normal; I got the result I want. But when I compile it in MSVC ++, the program crashes: "access violation"

    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    #include <setjmp.h>

    jmp_buf a;
    int is_invoke=0;

    void 
    action_1()
    {
        for ( ;; ) {
          printf("hello~~~A\n");
          if(!setjmp(a)) {
            is_invoke=1;
            return;
          }  
        }
    }

    void 
    func()
    {
      if (is_invoke) {
        longjmp(a,1);
      }
      action_1();
      printf("end\n");
    }

    void 
    dummy()
    {
      ;
    }

    int 
    main(int argc, char *argv[])
    {
        for ( ;; )  {
          func();
          dummy();
        }
        return 0;
    }

Answer 1

The man page for setjmp says:

setjmp()saves the stack context / environment in envfor later use longjmp(). The stack context will be invalid if the function is called setjmp().

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Answer 2

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C99 ( , ) :

§7.13.2.1 longjmp

longjmp , setjmp jmp_buf. , , setjmp ²⁰⁸⁾ , setjmp , undefined.

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setjmp() longjmp() . .

/*
@(#)File:           $RCSfile: setjmp.c,v $
@(#)Version:        $Revision: 1.1 $
@(#)Last changed:   $Date: 2009/10/01 16:41:04 $
@(#)Purpose:        Demonstrate setjmp() and longjmp()
@(#)Author:         J Leffler
@(#)Copyright:      (C) JLSS 2009
*/


#include <stdio.h>
#include <setjmp.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

static jmp_buf target_location;

static void do_something(void)
{
    static int counter = 0;
    if (++counter % 10 == 0)
        printf("---- doing something: %3d\n", counter);
    if (counter % 1000 == 0)
    {
        printf("||-- doing_something: calling longjmp() with value -1\n");
        longjmp(target_location, -1);
    }
}

static void do_something_else(int i, int j)
{
    printf("-->> do_something_else: (%d,%d)\n", i, j);
    do_something();
    if (i > 2 && j > 2 && j % i == 2)
    {
        printf("||-- do_something_else: calling longjmp() with value %d\n", (i + j) % 100);
        longjmp(target_location, (i + j) % 100);
    }
    printf("<<-- do_something_else: (%d,%d)\n", i, j);
}

static void doing_stuff(void)
{
    int i;
    printf("-->> doing_stuff()\n");
    for (i = rand() % 15; i < 30; i++)
    {
        int j;
        do_something();
        for (j = rand() % 10; j < 20; j++)
        {
            do_something_else(i, j);
        }
    }
    printf("<<-- doing_stuff()\n");
}

static void manage_setjmp(void)
{
    printf("-->> manage_setjmp()\n");
    switch (setjmp(target_location))
    {
    case 0:
        /* Initial return - get on with doing stuff */
        doing_stuff();
        break;
    case -1:
        /* Error return - terminate */
        printf("<<-- manage_setjmp() - error return from setjmp()\n");
        return;
    default:
        /* NB: not officially possible to assign the return from setjmp() */
        printf("---- manage_setjmp() - non-error return from setjmp()\n");
        doing_stuff();
        break;
    }
    printf("<<-- manage_setjmp()\n");
}

int main(void)
{
    printf("-->> main()\n");
    manage_setjmp();
    printf("<<-- main()\n");
    return(0);
}

Answer 3

You cannot use setjmp / longjmp for coroutines. Use makecontext / swapcontext for POSIX or fibers (CreateFiber, etc.) in windows.