Is it possible to store the address of a label in a variable and use goto to jump to it?

Question

I know everyone hates gotos. In my code, for reasons I have considered and am comfortable with, they provide an effective solution (ie I\'m not looking for \"don\'t do that\

Answer 1

You can do something similar with setjmp/longjmp.

int main (void)
{
    jmp_buf buf;
    int i=1;

    // this acts sort of like a dynamic label
    setjmp(buf);

    if( i-- )
        // and this effectively does a goto to the dynamic label
        longjmp(buf, 1);

    return 0;
}