<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Jumps - GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) Internals</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) Internals"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="Statements.html#Statements" title="Statements"> <link rel="prev" href="Empty-Statements.html#Empty-Statements" title="Empty Statements"> <link rel="next" href="Cleanups.html#Cleanups" title="Cleanups"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- Copyright (C) 1988-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the Invariant Sections being ``Funding Free Software'', the Front-Cover Texts being (a) (see below), and with the Back-Cover Texts being (b) (see below). A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''. (a) The FSF's Front-Cover Text is: A GNU Manual (b) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: You have freedom to copy and modify this GNU Manual, like GNU software. Copies published by the Free Software Foundation raise funds for GNU development.--> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="Jumps"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Cleanups.html#Cleanups">Cleanups</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Empty-Statements.html#Empty-Statements">Empty Statements</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Statements.html#Statements">Statements</a> <hr> </div> <h4 class="subsection">10.7.5 Jumps</h4> <p><a name="index-Jumps-1941"></a> Other jumps are expressed by either <code>GOTO_EXPR</code> or <code>RETURN_EXPR</code>. <p>The operand of a <code>GOTO_EXPR</code> must be either a label or a variable containing the address to jump to. <p>The operand of a <code>RETURN_EXPR</code> is either <code>NULL_TREE</code>, <code>RESULT_DECL</code>, or a <code>MODIFY_EXPR</code> which sets the return value. It would be nice to move the <code>MODIFY_EXPR</code> into a separate statement, but the special return semantics in <code>expand_return</code> make that difficult. It may still happen in the future, perhaps by moving most of that logic into <code>expand_assignment</code>. </body></html>