Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759625AbXFDVgR (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 17:36:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752446AbXFDVgG (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 17:36:06 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:41686 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750793AbXFDVgF (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 17:36:05 -0400 Message-ID: <46648561.4000106@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:34:25 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge CC: Jeff Garzik , Randy Dunlap , Al Viro , LKML , akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Documentation/CodingStyle: Add rules for goto labels 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> <46644B99.1060304@zytor.com> <46646164.3010406@goop.org> In-Reply-To: <46646164.3010406@goop.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 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: 673 Lines: 18 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> goto labels are scoped in one sense: they are only reachable from inside >> the block they are defined in, so I would disagree with this statement. >> > > Erm, no I think you're wrong there Yeah, I realized I was talking out of my ass there when Viro pointed this out. I has inadvertently generalized the rule "no skipping automatics" to "no jump into blocks." -hpa - 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/