Re: Using C as a back end

Our moderator writes:


>[I think you mean assigned goto's, not computed ones. A computed goto
>takes an integer index into a fixed array of labels and jumps to one
>of them, something you can easily fake with a switch containing gotos.
>An assigned goto is jump via a variable, which I agree that standard C
>doesn't permit. -John]


Actually, the Mercury compiler also uses computed gotos to implement
what are effectively switches in the source language. Once again,
you need to use the GNUC extension to do the indirect goto.
--
  Thomas Conway Mercurian )O+
  <conway@cs.mu.oz.au> Every sword has two edges.

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