Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760837AbXFDTCu (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:02:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758728AbXFDTCm (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:02:42 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:48739 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758685AbXFDTCl (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:02:41 -0400 Message-ID: <466461C4.2050806@goop.org> Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:02:28 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Ravnborg CC: Jeff Garzik , Randy Dunlap , Al Viro , LKML , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Chen Li-jun , Wang Ya-gang Subject: Re: [RFC] Documentation/CodingStyle: Add rules for goto labels (-v2) References: <20070603142450.GA4230@localhost.localdomain> <20070603142939.GW4095@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20070603074552.430c3d02.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <4662DFCF.3010606@garzik.org> <20070604045857.GE2161@localhost.localdomain> <4663B84E.2060103@goop.org> <20070604081938.GC2074@localhost.localdomain> <20070604183014.GB16187@uranus.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20070604183014.GB16187@uranus.ravnborg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 624 Lines: 16 Sam Ravnborg wrote: > If local(__label__) really so widely used in the kernel that it deserves > a place in coding-style? > A quick grep did not say so. > Probably not, and its use shouldn't be (even tacitly) encouraged. It's only really useful for defining a local label within a macro, and there's probably something wrong with your macro if you need a local label. J - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/