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		vardump on May 11, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Evolution of C Programming Practices: A Study ... I guess it's a matter of taste, but I often (not always) prefer less return statements in a function with gotos to error handling/cleanup code. Especially in kernel mode drivers.

WalterBright on May 11, 2018 [–]

Check the asm code generated by your compiler - it may optimize multiple returns into one.

vardump on May 11, 2018 | [–]

Not performance or code size I'm concerned, it's mainly about correctness. Stuff like input validation and releasing a spinlock in kernel code.

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