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From: jdege@jdege.visi.com (Jeffrey C. Dege)
Subject: Re: Software landmines (was: Why C++ is successful)
Date: 1998/08/21
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On Fri, 21 Aug 1998 01:29:16 GMT, Larry Brasfield <larry_br@sea_net.com> wrote:
>
>Is there any language in ordinary use that permits
>a goto to cross a procedure boundary?  If so, how
>are goto target name scopes defined?  If not, why
>make so much of trying to avoid such goto's? <g>

C's setjmp()/longjmp() functions provide for a goto() across procedure
boundaries.  Or at least from a function to a function that called it.

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