From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 17:15:38 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2303101657460.4881@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfpj_uBkH=hih2Kv+YwTQ-eHOzqgDUJ_+P8a4chOHu=cLQ@mail.gmail.com>
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.
<AOL>
Me too :-)
</AOL>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-10 6:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-09 23:01 [TUHS] " Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-03-09 23:18 ` [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2023-03-09 23:21 ` Warner Losh
2023-03-09 23:31 ` Luther Johnson
2023-03-09 23:44 ` josh
2023-03-09 23:54 ` Warner Losh
2023-03-10 0:54 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-03-10 1:08 ` Warner Losh
2023-03-10 10:08 ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-10 11:37 ` arnold
2023-03-10 11:56 ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-10 11:59 ` arnold
2023-03-10 12:11 ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-10 6:15 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2023-03-10 16:55 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-03-10 17:02 ` Bakul Shah
2023-03-12 20:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-03-12 21:50 ` Warner Losh
2023-03-12 22:27 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-03-13 3:09 ` [TUHS] Re: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55thanniversary Dave Horsfall
2023-03-14 19:54 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-03-10 1:31 ` [TUHS] Re: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary Rich Morin
2023-03-10 11:37 Noel Chiappa
2023-03-10 15:54 ` Dan Cross
2023-03-12 7:39 ` Anthony Martin
2023-03-12 11:40 ` Dan Cross
2023-03-12 16:40 ` Paul Winalski
2023-03-13 3:25 ` John Cowan
2023-03-13 10:40 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2023-03-13 12:19 ` Dan Cross
2023-03-10 11:51 Noel Chiappa
2023-03-10 14:16 ` Ronald Natalie
2023-03-10 14:39 ` John Cowan
2023-03-10 16:30 ` Phil Budne
2023-03-10 17:50 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-03-10 17:57 ` Paul Winalski
2023-03-10 18:12 ` Lawrence Stewart
2023-03-10 17:28 ` Clem Cole
2023-03-10 17:54 ` Paul Winalski
2023-03-10 15:37 Noel Chiappa
2023-03-10 15:46 ` Larry McVoy
2023-03-10 16:04 ` Dan Cross
2023-03-10 18:55 ` Ron Natalie
2023-03-10 19:04 ` Dan Cross
2023-03-10 19:35 ` segaloco via TUHS
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