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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Should you even be using goto? I was taught to avoid it like the plague

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Apple wrote bugged TLS code that broke using unbraced ifs with a goto, hence the name "goto fail". You don't need a goto to break this code though. All you need is a second indented line under the if