The Story So Far...

Posted Dec 29, 2014 0:41 UTC (Mon) by vonbrand (guest, #4458)
In reply to: The Story So Far... by nix
Parent article: The "too small to fail" memory-allocation rule

That is exactly the point: With the Linux goto usage the normal code path is linear and clear for all to see, failure exceptional code paths are kept apart, for separate analysis (which they require, as "normal situation" isn't guaranteed in them).