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Re:Let's write a setjmp by bee_rider on Sunday February 12, 2023 @12:55PM (#34765002)
I don’t write much C, but to an outsider like me this is a pretty big improvement.

It is a shame post-test loops aren’t more popular, given the similarity to the assembly they output. Seems more mechanically sympathetic. Oh well, at least it is an excuse to whip out the goto.

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Re:Let's write a setjmp by layer8 on Sunday February 12, 2023 @01:09PM (#34765131)
In Pascal, you could do

    repeat
        ...
    until c = 0;
which might be even clearer for this use case.
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