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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: The no goto religion
From:       Arnold Krille <kde () arnoldarts ! de>
Date:       2007-07-30 12:08:08
Message-ID: 200707301408.13855.kde () arnoldarts ! de
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Am Montag, 30. Juli 2007 schrieb James Richard Tyrer:
> You might want to read an assembler listing if you aren't familiar with
> how to write such a function in assembler.  Remember, machine language
> code isn't structured -- it is full of 'goto's.

Yeah, I did spent six weeks trying to debug machine-code not written by me and 
I didn't succeed because even the writer himself would need two or more days 
(uninterrupted) to understand his writings. Rewriting the broken parts in C 
(without any goto:) took me two days, adding the other asm-parts back in a 
save way took another week.
Unfortunately there seem to be some hardware issues which came to the surface 
by then...

While I know that hardware-assembler works with goto, I also know that goto in 
C(++) is error prone. Therefor I wouldn't recommend it to beginners...

Arnold
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