Re: [RFC] Documentation/CodingStyle: Add rules for goto labels

[Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]

On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:43:51 PDT, "H. Peter Anvin" said:
> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > But gotos are special. ("Evil" minus the "it's good for unrolling in case of an
> > error" case).

> So?
> 
> You still want them to be associated with the level the bailout happens at.

No, you want them associated with the level you bail out *TO*.  Otherwise you
get this:

	...
	...
	if (..) {
		if (..) {
			goto ka_blammo;
	...
	foo = yadda_yadda(.....);
	kfree(bar->some_struct);
			ka_blammo:
	/* continue with cleanup here */

Goto labels belong in column 1.  Or 2 if you believe in the existence of 'diff
-p' that get confused by col-1 labels.

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