gotos

[Every system needs one]

In article <3490 at bunker.UUCP>, garys at bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson) writes:
[...]
> What you really want is to get an interrupt if a key is pressed.
> If you can do that, then the code becomes much simpler.  If you
> can't get either a "key pressed" interrupt or an interval timer
> interrupt, then use a state machine.  (Credit has to go to Dave
> Burton; although I frequently use state machines, I hadn't thought of it
> in the previous case.)

how's about:

extern volatile key_interrupt;

for( ;;) {

	switch( whatever) {
	case 1:
	...
	case 2:
	...
	default:
	...
	}
	if( key_interrupt)
		break;
}


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