[tree-ssa] Computed gotos

Robert Dewar dewar@gnat.com
Tue Jul 1 03:01:00 GMT 2003


> 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 :-)



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