Thread: Any way to return to the top of main from a function

Originally Posted by dwks

Another alternative that hasn't been mentioned is to use longjmp(), a sort of cross-function goto -- but there's a reason it hasn't been mentioned, and that is because this is not a good function to use at all!

Yes -- using longjmp() would require you to first clean up all allocated resources (otherwise you'd leak a bunch of stuff on every "restart"). The logic involved in doing this is going to be basically the same logic as returning normally back up the call stack in the first place.

Another silly method would be to re-exec() yourself. Actually, depending on the context (which is still completely unclear), that might not be such a bad option.

Sorry for my absence. I have had a lot of other things going on besides programming.

For some reason I thought that converting my main function to a separate function and calling a recursion when necessary would be too much work and require too much hacking at my original code. After thinking about it more I don't see why this would be the case anymore. It should be quite simple actually. I will give that a try and get back to you guys.