Re: Gotos

[Momchil Velikov <velco@xxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Cambrant <tim@cambrant.com> writes:

Tim> Could someone please explain to me why we have a bunch
Tim> of gotos where they really could be removed? I'm sure
Tim> there is a good reason, but I simply don't see it. For
Tim> example, why shouldn't the following patch be applied?
Tim> I'd appreciate any explanation I could get. Thank you.

  Because someone thought he's smarter than the compiler.  Which may
have been true at the time.  Nowdays it probably does not make any
difference -- the compiler would generate the same code in either
variant (though probably different on different architectures).

~velco

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