11 Mar
2023
11 Mar
'23
8:56 p.m.
Ralph Corderoy <ralph(a)inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
Hi Arnold,
Oh, I think our wires are crossed.
I wrote:
Those would undoubtedly be easier. I asssume a "stack the address"
sort of implementation a la BWK's ratfor, but I could be wrong, as
I'm not familiar with the PDP-11 C compiler.
Arnold
Given sh(1)'s break takes an optional number
of loops to break out of,
I'm surprised C stuck with just the single-level break.
In other words, ‘break 2’ works in sh but not in C.
You added labelled breaks; I wasn't asking if they upped the
housekeeping, just ‘break 2’.