Re: Hmmm... ???

Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 11:44:16 +0000 (GMT)


On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Sasi Peter wrote:

> What did I do wrong?
>
> [root@iq linux-2.2.0-pre6]# find -name '*.c' -o -name '*.h'|xargs -n 1 grep -c 'goto '|awk 'BEGIN {c=0} {c+=$1} END {print c}'
> 6130
> [root@iq linux-2.2.0-pre6]# cd ../linux-2.0.36
> [root@iq linux-2.0.36]# find -name '*.c' -o -name '*.h'|xargs -n 1 grep -c 'goto '|awk 'BEGIN {c=0} {c+=$1} END {print c}'
> 1826
> [root@iq linux-2.0.36]#
>
> ;)

Gotos are used heavily in the filesystem code, and we have quite a few
more of them now. I think that would account for a lot of it. The
dentry stuff makes for more things which should be unlocked or "put"
which, in turn, makes for more gotos.

I think.

Matthew.

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