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From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Address of a goto label?
Message-ID: <508@lakart.UUCP>
Date: 20 Apr 89 15:08:49 GMT
References: <1768@leah.Albany.Edu>
Organization: Lakart Corporation, Newton, MA
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From article <1768@leah.Albany.Edu>, by rds95@leah.Albany.Edu (Robert Seals):
> I wrote a program to test it. Thus,
> .....
> 	HERE:
> 	    p = &HERE;
> .....
> 
> So, the failed compilation seemed correct. BUT, I tried it on the local
> 4.3-tahoe, and it compiled .....

Ugh. The possibilities for high level self modifying code are horrific. :-)

One thing that I _DID_ like about BCPL was that you could do the following:

foo()
 {
    code;
 }

boo()
 {
    different code;
 }

zap()
 {
    foo();
    foo = boo;
    foo();	/* but he really calls boo() */
 }

Made for a really funky node allocation subroutine in a lisp like
environment :-)

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