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Re: Return from nested subroutines (still goto discussion)

• Posted by "Kat" <gertie at visionsix.com> Nov 12, 2004
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On 13 Nov 2004, at 0:25, Patrick Barnes wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 05:14:42 -0800, Derek Parnell
> <guest at rapideuphoria.com> wrote:
> > > If I'm right, performance is not the main question here.
> > > Using GOTO this way, i.e. jumping out of procedures will corrupt the
> > > stack, no? So this should not be done anyhow, should it? Please correct me
> > > if I'm wrong.
> > 
> > It depends. A sophisticated compiler might recognise that the flow has
> > transferred from the current stack frame and compensate for that.
> 
> If it would do that, it'd have to restore the stack, which would take
> a bit of execution time, too. Not everything about GOTO is fast.

Jumping into/out of proceedures has never been on my wish list, quite the 
contrary.

Kat