In C why do you need a statement after a goto label?

Question

I am writing some C code and in my code I have two nested loops. On a particular condition I want to break out of the inner loop and continue the o

Answer 1

You simply need to write:

label: ;

The semi-colon is an empty statement. You need it because the language is defined like that; you need to go to a statement, even if it is an empty one.

    for (int i = 0; i < N; i++)
    {
        for (int j = 0; i < M; j++)
        {
            ...
            if (some_condition)
                goto continue_loop1;
            ...
        }
continue_loop1: ;
    }

You can argue about the indentation on the label.