> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Ammerman [SMTP:RAMMERMAN@PRODIGY.NET]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 9:31 PM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: [EE]:GOTO
>
> All ANSI 'C' compilers must allow gotos within a function, even _into_
> such
> structures as while and for loops and switch statements.
>
> No 'C' compiler should allow gotos from one function to another. I'd love
> to
> here the story of any which does.
>
> Bob Ammerman
> RAm Systems
> (contract development of high performance, high function, low-level
> software)
>
Not exactly a "goto" but SETJMP and LONGJMP allow branching between
arbitrary points within different functions.  I've only ever seen this used
on UNIX, so I guess it's not an ANSI C thing?

Mike

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