'goto' usage

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Published on 2008-08-23T18:18:04Z Indexed on 2010/05/11 9:54 UTC
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I've long been under the impression that 'goto' should never be used if possible. While perusing libavcodec (which is written in C) the other day, I noticed multiple uses of it. Is it ever advantageous to use 'goto' in a language that supports loops and functions? If so, why?

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