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From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, Chen Li-jun <cljun@xiyou.edu.cn>,
	Wang Ya-gang <lazy_linux@126.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Documentation/CodingStyle: Add rules for goto labels (-v2)
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 09:37:36 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070605013735.GA2388@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <466461C4.2050806@goop.org>

On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 12:02:28PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> If local(__label__) really so widely used in the kernel that it deserves
>> a place in coding-style?
>> A quick grep did not say so.
>>   
>
>Probably not, and its use shouldn't be (even tacitly) encouraged.  It's
>only really useful for defining a local label within a macro, and
>there's probably something wrong with your macro if you need a local label.
>
>    J

I agree. Local labels maybe useful in macros.
If someone will use local labels in his code some day, we shouldn't force him
to align his labels in the first column.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-05  1:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-03 14:24 [RFC] Documentation/CodingStyle: Add rules for goto labels WANG Cong
2007-06-03 14:29 ` Al Viro
2007-06-03 14:45   ` Randy Dunlap
2007-06-03 15:35     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-04  4:58       ` WANG Cong
2007-06-04  6:59         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-04  7:51           ` WANG Cong
2007-06-04  8:19           ` [RFC] Documentation/CodingStyle: Add rules for goto labels (-v2) WANG Cong
2007-06-04 18:30             ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-06-04 19:02               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-05  1:37                 ` WANG Cong [this message]
2007-06-10  2:31                   ` Al Viro
2007-06-04 17:27           ` [RFC] Documentation/CodingStyle: Add rules for goto labels H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-04 19:00             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-06-04 21:34               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-04 17:27       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-04 17:35         ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-04 17:43           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-04 17:54             ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-06-04 18:01               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-04 17:57             ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-05  2:10               ` WANG Cong
2007-06-05  2:12                 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-05  2:31                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-05  7:44                     ` WANG Cong
2007-06-05  9:16                 ` Rene Herman
2007-06-06  4:53                   ` WANG Cong

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