That is both really useful and a great example of why they should have stopped writing code in C decades ago. So many kernel bugs have arisen from people adding early returns without thinking about the cleanup functions, a problem that many other language platforms handle automatically on scope exit.

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overfeed 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Must we do this on every thread about the Linux kernel?

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tigen 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This ought to help with that. https://thephd.dev/c2y-the-defer-technical-specification-its...

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nurettin an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> stopped writing code in C decades ago.

And what were they supposed to use in 2006? Free Pascal? Ada?

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		Someone suggested C++ and you should see the response from Linus https://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/linus