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The C89 Committee concluded that about the only thing a strictly conforming program can do in a signal handler is to assign a value to a volatile static variable which can be written uninterruptedly and promptly return.

Non-Compliant

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Code Example

err_msg is updated to reflect the SIGINT signal that was encountered. Issues will occur if a SIGINT is generated prior to the malloc of err_msg finishing.

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