[Libav-user] [FFmpeg-devel] goto statements and multi-threaded app

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Ratin <ratin3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> While searching for goto across whole ffmpeg codebase resulted in 3253
> instances (with goto statement) were found. How reliable is goto statements
> when it comes to multi-threaded apps? I was under the impression its pretty
> risky to use.


That's utter nonsense. Besides, most gotos are used for error handling
which is a widely accepted use of goto.

Ronald
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