Re: [PATCH] Replaces two GOTO statements with one IF_ELSE statement in /fs/open.c

[Andi Kleen]

Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> The old trick to make the error-handling code out-of-line shouldn't be
> needed nowadays - IS_ERR uses unlikely(), which is supposed to handle that
> stuff.

In fact it doesn't even work anymore with -freorder-blocks (which is
default on i386). Without unlikely gcc 3.3/3.4 will happily move the out of
line block back. I was told that newer gcc gives a bit more value
to user gotos, but it doesn't help on the older compilers.

-Andi (who also thinks there are too many gotos in the kernel and 
many should be cleaned up) 
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