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Control Instructions

The control instructions are divided into three classes:

  1. calling subroutines: ll-call, return
  2. branch instructions: goto, on-nil-goto
  3. non-local exits: catch, remove-tag, throw, catch-nil, throw-nil



Harold Boley & Michael Sintek (sintek@dfki.uni-kl.de)