Re: GOTO operator

From:	Zeev Suraski	Date:	Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:37:22 +0000
Subject:	Re: GOTO operator
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At 12:21 19/08/2004, Sascha Schumann wrote:

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote:
Alan Knowles wrote:

- compile time hooking (no dynamic goto targets)
That kind of makes them useless for writing parsers, which was one of the justifications of them.
How that? C doesn't have dynamic goto targets either but still its used for parsing lot ...
That depends on what you consider C. Try compiling this with your favourite C compiler:
    This C extension is so popular (and necessary) that only one
    C compiler implements it.  Go figure..

Very true :) I guess the assumption was that everyone's favourite C compiler must be gcc. Zeev