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Subject: Re: transpiling to low level C
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 11:22:51 +0200
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On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 06:01:52 -0000 (UTC)
antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) wrote:

> Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > On 21.12.2024 02:28, Tim Rentsch wrote:  
> >> Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:
> >>   
> >>> On 16.12.2024 00:53, BGB wrote:
> >>>  
> >>>> [...]
> >>>>
> >>>> Pretty much all higher level control flow can be expressed via
> >>>> goto.  
> >>>
> >>> A 'goto' may be used but it isn't strictly *necessary*. What *is*
> >>> necessary, though, that is an 'if' (some conditional branch), and
> >>> either 'goto' or recursive functions.  
> >> 
> >> Conditional branches, including 'if', '?:', etc., are not strictly
> >> necessary either.  
> > 
> > No? - Can you give an example of your statement?  
> 
> Look at example that I posted (apparently neither you nor Tim
> looked at my posts where I explained in detail how to translate
> goto program (with conditional jumps) into program that contains
> no goto and no conditional jumps).

Considering that Janis replied to your post I find a possibility that
he did not look at it unlikely. Although not completely impossible.

> 
> Or try to figure out how to do this knowing that C has function
> pointers.
>