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Re: Computed GOTOs

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gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) writes:

> In article <d2d61fb2-b51f-498b-9a89-c230b7f55ff9@googlegroups.com>,
> Paul N  <gw7rib@aol.com> wrote:
> ...
>>In BCPL, labels were numbers just like any other variable. So you could do:
>>
>>GOTO val -> lab1 , lab2
>>
>>to choose one of two targets ( -> is the BCPL equivalent of ? : )
>>
>>or you could use an array; or you could even do
>>
>>GOTO lab + 4
>>
>>if jumping to slightly after a label is your idea of fun.
>
> Note, incidentally, that you *can* implement computed goto in C - in fact,
> in entirely standard (on topic) C.  The details of how to do it escape me
> at the moment, but it involves setjmp and longjmp.  Basically, you set up
> an array of jmpbufs and then longjmp to the one you want.  Somebody figured
> this out and explained it to me sometime back in the 80s.
>
> Perhaps someone here will take it on as a challenge...

Now you've done it.

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