[tree-ssa] Computed gotos
Andrew Haley
aph@redhat.com
Fri Jun 27 21:04:00 GMT 2003
Robert Dewar writes:
> > Is this kind of thing ever likely to work reliably and efficiently?
> > I could probably rearrange things so we end up with a switch statement
> > containing normal gotos. This would eliminate the need for indirect jumps
> > altogether. Maybe this is the way to go?
>
> Absolutely, computed gotos are an abomination in most cases
I use indirect jumps in a rather appalling way in the Java bytecode
compiler. I guess I'll plead that support should be retained until I
can think of a better way to do it.
Andrew.
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