Re: Nameless labels?

[Andres Perera <andres.p@...>]

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Kaj Eijlers <bizziboi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Whoops, sorry about the top post - gmail conveniently hides it.
>
> Never seen it in assembly, maybe I got too late to the assembly game (around
> 1982), all assemblers I have used had proper labels (or maybe they supported
> it but noone I interacted with used them - thank God!)

op is describing two things: syntax relative jumps and nameless
labels, with little correlation between the two

the former you have in gas[0], eg jmp 1f to jump to the nearest label
named 1 doing a forward transversal

0: http://tigcc.ticalc.org/doc/gnuasm.html#SEC48

> Anyhow, I prefer labels to be named according to their function in the loop
> because even I who has advocated goto usage in C for a long time in the
> workplace find them pretty much unneeded nowadays and obscuring flow.
>