Re: question about linker

On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 21:01:07 +0000
Bart <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:

 
The C language is one of the most quirky ones around full of
apparently ridiculous things. Why shouldn't you be able to write this
for example:
 
    {
    ....
    L:
    }
 
This stupid rule means that EVERY label in my generated code needs to
be written as L:; instead of just L:
 
Please don't say the label is only defined to be a prefix to another
statement. I asking why it was done like that.
 
 

No good reasons. It was a mistake of Committee 35 years ago.
I don't know why it was not fixed in 3 subsequent iteration.
Finally fixed in the latest edition.
Still, this mistake less bad than ; as a separator in Pascal.
And even the latter is minor.