[TUHS] I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary

[Warner Losh]

On Sun, Mar 12, 2023, 2:47 PM Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Mar 2023, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
>
> > |Seriously, I also use setjmp()/longjmp() for a more elegant exit from a
> >
> > That is sheer unbelievable, really?  _So_ expensive!
>
> How often would you call setjmp()/longjmp()
>

Cheap enough for occasional error handling, way too expensive for a generic
exception handling system... processors with lots of registers were more of
a problem...

Warner

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