10 Mar
2023
10 Mar
'23
7:15 a.m.
On Thu, 9 Mar 2023, Warner Losh wrote:
In C I use it all the time to do goto err for common
error recovery
because C doesn't have anything better.
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Me too :-)
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Seriously, I also use setjmp()/longjmp() for a more elegant exit from a
deeply-nested loop; "break N" to break out of "N" loops, anyone? I
haven't found that yet...
Of course, in those days it was setexit() etc :-)
-- Dave