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Subject: Comments on ANSI public Oct 86 Public review draft.
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Date: Mon, 30-Mar-87 12:39:14 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 30 12:39:14 1987
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nelson@ohlone.UUCP (Bron Nelson) writes:
> What is the definition about 'goto' where the target is an enclosed
> block?  In particular:

> is the initializing assignment to i done or not?  Or is this illegal (as
> it should be!)?

Initializations are not done, and it *is* legal.  (The underlying idea
is that automatics of inner blocks are actually allocated in the stack
frame of the containing procedure.)

Dale
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