Re: [PATCH] Replaces two GOTO statements with one IF_ELSE statement in /fs/open.c

From: Martin Waitz
Date: Tue Jun 21 2005 - 04:08:02 EST


hoi :)

On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 01:38:00PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Yes, it is cleaner that way.

Well, I don't think so...

> The old trick to make the error-handling code out-of-line shouldn't be
> needed nowadays - IS_ERR uses unlikely(), which is supposed to handle that
> stuff.

IMHO out-of-line error handling improves readability because you have a
clear boundary between real functionality and error handling. If both
are mixed up you have to look longer at the code to understand the
control-flow.

--
Martin Waitz

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