libc.strcmp() behaves similar.<br /><br />From: Dave Horsfall &lt;dave@horsfall.org&gt;<br />Sent: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 09:57:47<br />To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society &lt;tuhs@tuhs.org&gt;<br />Subject: Re: [TUHS] origin of string.h and ctype.h<br /><br />On Sat, 12 Aug 2017, Steve Johnson wrote:<br /><br />&gt; Don&#39;t have much to add except to note that early FORTRANs had a version<br />&gt; of IF that took three statement numbers and did a (gasp) GOTO to the<br />&gt; first if the expression in the IF was negative, to the second if it was<br />&gt; 0, and to the third if it was positive. &nbsp; &nbsp;And some mainframes had an<br />&gt; instruction that did exactly that as well...<br /><br />Wasn&#39;t that the computed GOTO?<br /><br />--<br />Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) &nbsp;&quot;Those who don&#39;t understand security will suffer.&quot;<br>