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Re: [tree-ssa] Computed gotos
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: dewar at gnat dot com, paul at nowt dot org, positrone at freemail dot it
- Cc: aph at redhat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 23:01:49 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: [tree-ssa] Computed gotos
> Yes, me too. The fortran version is called an assigned goto. Some confusion
> is inevitable as Fortran also has a "computed goto", but that's different,
> and trivially translatable into a select statement.
OK, my confusion then sorry. Why on earth is the C version called a computed
goto, that sure is a confused terminology, but I guess one that is familiar
in the GNU C world. I will take off my Fortran hat :-)