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Date:      Wed, 20 Sep 1995 01:24:37 +0200 (EETDST)
From:      Juha Inkari <inkari@snakemail.hut.fi>
To:        hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Coding style ( was Re: why is this not a bug in namei?)
Message-ID:  <199509192224.BAA29255@lk-hp-20.hut.fi>
In-Reply-To: <199509192128.OAA10722@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Sep 19, 95 02:28:35 pm
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One reason to be carefull with goto statements is C++ compability.
In C++ it is illegal to jump over variable initialization.

For example, the code below is valid C, but not valid C++.

    if (1) {
        goto jump;
    }

    while (1) {
	int b = 1;
jump:
        /* stuff ... */
    }

This is, of course, bad practise in plain C, too.

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