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On Mon, 13 Oct 2025 23:48:55 +0100, Nuno Silva wrote:

> I think the concern about GOTO as opposed to e.g. a function call where
> supported is that the function call makes it clear where it is called
> and to where it returns, while GOTO does not come with that structure.

It's nowhere near as much fun as siglongjmp() :). 

Other than the bad old days of FORTRAN my goto use is local to the 
function, something like:

if (test_failed) {
    goto exit;
}

It allows the function to have one entrance and one exit without the 
convoluted and deeply nested conditionals that might be needed otherwise. 
I think TNP pointed out in assembler all you have is JMP and its friends.