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zvrba on July 22, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: LLVM Programmer’s Manual

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?

Peaker on July 22, 2016 | [–]

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.

adamnemecek on July 22, 2016 | [–]

I'm well aware. I was talking about old school gotos, I should have probably said that.

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