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Message: [QUOTE="Keith Thompson, post: 2414262"] A jump table used (by the compiler) to implement a switch statement is likely to be more efficient than an explicit one using function pointers. A compiler-generated jump table will be a table of code addresses (labels), not function pointers, avoiding the overhead of a function call and return. There's no good way to implement an array of labels in C. <OT>gcc has an extension that lets you store the value of a label in a pointer, and use the pointer as the target of a goto; this is, of course, non-portable.</OT> [/QUOTE]