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From: jack@rlgvax.UUCP (Jack Waugh)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Using &LABEL
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Date: Sun, 2-Sep-84 23:43:41 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  2 23:43:41 1984
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As I recall (for what it's worth now), the C Reference that came
with Fifth Edition UNIX (the version before V6) suggested using
integer pointers as label variables.

K&R, page 204, section 9.12, says "the only use of a label is
as a target of a goto".