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From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman)
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Subject: Is this legal C?
Message-ID: <2783@utcsrgv.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Nov-83 15:02:56 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 21 15:02:56 1983
Date-Received: Mon, 21-Nov-83 15:48:47 EST
Organization: The Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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I recently had occasion to use a construct which is a little strange,
and I was wondering whether it's guaranteed to be portable.

		if(0) retry: printf("Try again.\n");
		printf("What's two plus two? ");
		....
		/* if get a bad answer */
		goto retry;

This code ensures that the "Try again" message isn't executed the
first time through. It works fine on the VAX (4.1bsd) and PDP-11 (v7).
Can I be sure that the "goto" to a statement within a condition
will work with any C compiler?

Dave Sherman
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