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Re:LLVM Programmer’s Manual by zvrba on Friday July 22, 2016 @01:20AM (#12141855)
You're funny. gotos are used to emulate cleanup both of which you get in a more structured manner with RAII and exceptions. Rmember Apple's infamous "goto bug" in OpenSSL?
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Re:LLVM Programmer’s Manual by Peaker on Friday July 22, 2016 @10:35AM (#12143749)
While RAII and exceptions are better than goto's, the "goto fail" bug is not an example of that. The problem there was mismatch between indentation and parse which was a result of brace-less style and whitespace-insensitivity.
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Re:LLVM Programmer’s Manual by adamnemecek on Friday July 22, 2016 @01:36AM (#12141900)
I'm well aware. I was talking about old school gotos, I should have probably said that.
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