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gishh
19 days ago
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Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem
To be fair, if you’re not “this tall” you really shouldn’t consider using goto in a c program. Most people aren’t that tall.
tucnak
19 days ago
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Nonsense. Linux kernel for one example, uses goto everywhere for error handling.
gishh
14 days ago
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How many codebases besides the Linux kernel had you seen an intentional amount of use of goto?
orphea
12 days ago
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The answer is one search away on GitHub.
I will give you one example though: various .NET repositories (runtime, aspnetcore, orleans).
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