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At 04:59 PM 1/12/2003 -0500, Adam Kropelin wrote:
>The use of goto in the kernel surprised me the first time I saw it, too.
>However, rather than hurry to point out how much more I knew about C
>style than the kernel hackers, I stayed quiet and made a learning
>experience of it. I suggest you do the same.
>
>--Adam

every article i have read (an agreed with) on operating system internals,
has stated that the goto is considered taboo in C... _except_ in operating
system code where speed is critical, and goto can increase readability.
i taught myself how to program by single stepping through assembly
code on a DOS machine. i have found that too much structure leads
not to modular code that is easy to maintain, but a nightmare of
conditionals that cause your head to throb trying to trace the state
of an execution. being that i am partial to assembly, perhaps i am
biased in the matter.

br 


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