Re^3: gotos

[Henry Spencer]

> This may be highly undesireable in a language used for programming operating
> systems, where the programmer needs something approaching WYSIWYG capability.
> C is eminently such a language.

In operating systems, the programmer needs something approaching WYSIWYG
capability in about 0.01% of the code (although there he needs it badly).
Heavy optimization of the rest suits me fine.  The people at Mips, among
others, have demonstrated that with a few bits of control over the compiler
(e.g. volatile), heavily-optimizing compilers work beautifully for operating
systems.
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