Think of everythin which in java you would put in the catch and finally blocks. Those are nearly always most cleanly handled in C code by doing a goto to the cleanup/return section at the end of the function.

You could work around this via tons of deeply nested blocks, but that makes the code very unreadable. The goto cleanup pattern makes the code intuitive and very readable.

I still have a printout somewhere of an application from the 80s, maybe a dozen pages in small font, every few lines it jumps via goto to somewhere else, depending on state (global variables, of course). It was a serious nightmare to figure out where the code is going. That was the historical context of "goto considered harmful". It sure was! Code like that doesn't exist today, the lessons have been learned. It had nothing to do with clean jump to a cleanup section (which is what a finally{} block is, after all).