On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 09:59:49AM +0200, Javier Carrasco wrote: > This approach is great as long as the maintainer accepts mid-scope > variable declaration and the goto instructions get refactored, as stated > in cleanup.h. > > The first point is not being that problematic so far, but the second one > is trickier, and we all have to take special care to avoid such issues, > even if they don't look dangerous in the current code, because adding a > goto where there cleanup attribute is already used can be overlooked as > well. > To be honest, I don't really understand this paragraph. I think maybe you're talking about if we declare the variable at the top and forget to initialize it to NULL? It leads to an uninitialized variable if we exit the function before it is initialized. > Actually there are goto instructions in the function, but at least in > their current form they are as harmless as useless. Yep. Feel free to delete them. regards, dan carpenter
