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Chapter 6. Statement types

Statements enable procedural control flow within functions and probe handlers. The total number of statements executed in response to any single probe event is limited to MAXACTION, which defaults to 1000. See Section Section 1.6, “Safety and security”.

6.1. break and continue
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Use break or continue to exit or iterate the innermost nesting loop statement, such as within a while, for, or foreach statement. The syntax and semantics are the same as those used in C.
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