Re: Are Goto's in the Linux Kernel necessarily bad?

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

It's not the GoTos that cause the problems. It's the ComeFroms. As in,
"Where did those guys ComeFrom? They look like furriners."

But seriously folks... I haven't heard this argument for twenty years.
Unless the kernel programmers' platform of choice is the Radio Shack
TRS-80, don' worry, be happy.

--Doc

On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 00:49, Jonathan Drews wrote:
> I have heard that there are many goto statements in the Linux kernel. 
> The accepted convention is that goto statements are a source of 
> programming errors and therefore inherently bad. Is this true and will 
> the use of these goto statements make the Linux kernel  unstable? 



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