10 Mar
2023
10 Mar
'23
12:59 p.m.
Ralph Corderoy <ralph(a)inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
Yes, since you have to keep track of a label in a table somewhere
that you can look up. Is it *that* much more that the PDP-11 C compiler
could not have handled it? I don't know.
Arnold
Remember too
that the C compiler had to fit in a small space; having
multilevel or labelled breaks requires more bookkeeping.
Is it more bookkeeping than is already needed to handle the ends of the
nested for-loops, say?