From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Is it possible to use Labels ????
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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 03:01:28 GMT
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On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 01:02:01 +0200, "Torsten Giebl"
<wizard AT synthetic-crew DOT de> wrote:

>I have written some smaller programs in Free Pascal and there you can use
>things like this:
>
>Test:
>..
>..
>..
>GOTO Test
>
>Can i also use labels in DJGPP ??? If yes, how ???

In general labels are bad.  Normally you want to use while(), for(),
if(), or select() logic.

(Don't) Use the goto statement to jump to a label in the same
function.  It works, but it encourages spaghetti code.

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