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by techno_modus 2764 days ago
> I think we should distinguish between gotos at language level and jumps in the underlying machine code.

Is there any non-syntactic difference between these two lines?

    JMP Ox1234
    GOTO label_1234
I think they are identical and the question is only where target labels can reside, how they are represented, and when the jumps are triggered (operation).
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You lost me here. Is this assembler? The question is if and when to use goto in higer-level code, not how to use jumps in machine code, which is a completely different question. What keyword you use for the instruction does not matter.