On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 07:50:11PM +0200, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
>...
> And it is widely known that the use of "goto" is not a good programming
> practice and the linux kernel uses it (for performance reasons, I think).
>...
It is widely known that the _abuse_ of "goto" is not a good programming
practice.
The use in the kernel is not for performance reasons, it's a clean way
of error handling.
If you'd look at the code, you'd understand this.
> Best regards
cu
Adrian
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