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In article <1992Feb21.023817.17703@athena.mit.edu> mjhostet@slayer.mit.edu (Mat Hostetter) writes:
>I saw in the GNU status report that "C has been extended to support
>nested functions, nonlocal gotos, and taking the address of a label."
>
>Will there be any way to have an array of label-pointers and dispatch to the  
>one I want?  (eg, "goto label_array[x]".)  (I basically need a switch that does  
>no bounds checking, for a really speed-intensive loop.)
>
>-Mat

This would be hugely wonderful for people like me who want to compile
other languages to C.  If somebody finds out the answer, please post.

Another handy feature I'm wondering about:

  The ability to allocate a register for a global variable without
knowing the register name on the actual platform... that is, being
able to say "first reservable register", "second reservable register",
and "third reservable register" rather than A0 or whatever.  The 
GCC 1 manual said this might happen eventually.

      -- Paul

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