C++: Safe to use longjmp and setjmp?

setjmp()/longjmp() completely subvert stack unwinding and therefore exception handling as well as RAII (destructors in general).

From 18.7/4 "Other runtime support" in the standard:

If any automatic objects would be destroyed by a thrown exception transferring control to another (destination) point in the program, then a call to longjmp(jbuf, val) at the throw point that transfers control to the same (destination) point has undefined behavior.

So the bottom line is that setjmp()/longjmp() do not play well in C++.

It's not specific to Linux or gcc; setjmp / longjmp and C++ don't work too well together if you're using longjmp to leave a context where there are automatic variables with destructors.

The destructors won't run which may result in a memory leak or other bad behaviour.