'goto" gone from computer languages or is it!

[Jules Richardson]

On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 19:05 -0400, Dave Dunfield wrote:
> >... the wrong answer being to dump out each array element followed by a
> >comma, then output ^H as the final step in the function ;-)
> 
> Works poorly on hardcopy devices :-)

That's what tippex is for :) 

> >Real Programmers would presumably use putc exclusively in favour of the
> >more computationally expensive printf...
> 
> ...
> - Codesize compiled from C for the 8086 (my Micro-C) is 688 bytes.
> - Code size of comparable routine hand crafted in assembly language
>   for my 8051 compiler library is 437 bytes (although this adds a
>   new %i for strings in internal memory).
> - Code size for the C-FLEA (a virtual processor I developed which is
>   an optimized C target) is 335 bytes.

I stand corrected - that's quite impressive. Sure, Windows is bloated,
but I still would have guessed on a couple of kb or so of code. As you
say, lack of floating-point isn't  exactly the end of the world...

> You could of course do something "clever" to make the
> extra conditional harder to see like:
> 
>     for(i=0; i < n; ++i)
>       printf("%u%s", aryp[i], ","+(i >= n));

This is why I really don't like C much :-) (Although I do insist on
using it a lot of late...)

cheers

J.