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From: jay@splut.UUCP (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: reserved word 'entry'
Message-ID: <71@splut.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Aug-87 13:07:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: splut.71
Posted: Fri Aug 21 13:07:32 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 24-Aug-87 03:39:50 EDT
References: <402@root44.co.uk>
Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX
Lines: 21
Keywords: entry reserved
Summary: Probably for a secondary entry point.

In article <402@root44.co.uk>, jgh@root.co.uk (Jeremy G Harris) writes:
> Does anybody know what the K&R-listed reserved word 'entry' was for?

Actually, when I saw it, ti looked like a means for an alternate entry point
into a routine. (Yes, I know this violates block structuring...but it's
[somewhat widely] used on 370-architecture mainframes.)

> Anybody have a compiler which uses it?

Not C...but my PL/I does nicely! :-)

> The only application which came to mind was as a label for a non-local
> goto.   I nearly threw up.

Is this what you had in mind?

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