Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Efficient Fortran Message-ID: Date: 20 Jul 90 15:01:24 GMT References: <1990Jul3.194348.21178@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <9595@brazos.Rice.edu> <1991@key.COM> <2378@l.cc.purdue.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 7 > 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. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`