🚀 go-pugleaf

In <4hl8mt$4po@newshost.cyberramp.net> sinan@cyberramp.net (John Noland) writes:

>>Robert C Shields (rcshlds@mailserv.mta.ca) wrote:
>>Example for a good use of goto:
>>---                    ????
>>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>   HEV    hev1, hev2, hev3;     /* Event semaphores */
>>   HMTX   hmtx;                 /* Mutex semaphore  */ 
>>   void  *ptr;              

>>   if (!DosCreateEventSem(0, &hev1, 0, FALSE))
>>       goto hev1_failed;
>>
>>   if (!DosCreateEventSem(0, &hev2, 0, FALSE))
>>       goto hev2_failed;

>>   if (!DosCreateEventSem(0, &hev3, 0, FALSE))
>>       goto hev3_failed;
>>
>>   if (!DosCreateMutexSem(0, &hmtx, 0, FALSE))
>>       goto hmtx_failed;
>>
>>   if ((ptr = malloc(SOME_SIZE)) == NULL)
>>       goto malloc_failed;
>>
>>   /* Do some stuff here */
>>   return TRUE; /* We did okay */
>>
>>malloc_failed:
>>   DosCloseMutexSem(hmtx);
>>hmtx_failed:
>>   DosCloseEventSem(hev3);
>>hev3_failed:
>>   DosCloseEventSem(hev2);
>>hev2_failed:
>>   DosCloseEventSem(hev1);
>>hev1_failed:
>>   return FALSE;


>The above is NOT an example of a good use for the goto statement. 

Well that is what I thougut when I first saw the example, and I was about to
dash off an article like you have done. But then I looked again and saw
*exactly* what it was doing.

So if you believe there is a better way, please can we see it?

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