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Re: label question
- To: craig at jcb-sc dot com
- Subject: Re: label question
- From: Philip Blundell <pb at nexus dot co dot uk>
- Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 17:00:48 +0100
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
>If it's not specified to so serve, then I would think the compiler
>can indeed delete the instructions following the label. Perhaps it
>could even delete the label itself, making the pointer it passes to
>`bar' undefined.
>
>My reading of the documentation of this GCC feature supports the latter
>interpretation: it is not intended to provide non-local GOTO.
>(I looked it up in `extend.texi' in the EGCS sources.)
Thanks. Andreas Schwab made the same point; I've now rewritten my code to
avoid using this construct.
p.