Re: Efficient Fortran

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 1990 15:01

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> Regarding the merits of assigned GOTO, consider an architecture where the
> address of an instruction cannot in fact be stored in an INTEGER variable
> (because, for example, an address has 64 bits whereas an integer has 32).

Given the relatively small number of addresses involved, using a lookup
table and a small integer token for each numbered line is an easy solution
to this problem.
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Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
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<peter@ficc.ferranti.com>

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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Efficient Fortran
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Date: 20 Jul 90 15:01:24 GMT
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