[OT] [sdiy] IN your mind, what is ....

Shokwave shokwave at nb.aibn.com
Wed Feb 4 17:44:50 CET 2004


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael E. Caloroso" <analoguediehard at att.net>

> goto statements can take you *outside* the function.  Do this and now
> you have pointers in the stack that are invalid.  This fragments the
> stack, raising the spectre of stack overflow and a system crash.
> Framented memory is the bane of code that runs 24/7.

Well now, just because you COULD misuse a goto by jumping out of a function,
doesn't invalidate using a goto. Just don't ever use a goto to jump across
functions; that's plain silly. Use a goto because continue's are ugly!

-Darren



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