[libvirt] [PATCH] esx: Handle non-UTF-8 encoded VMX files

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Mon Oct 18 16:37:31 UTC 2010


On 10/18/2010 10:22 AM, Laine Stump wrote:
>>> +
>>> + if (result == NULL) {
>>> + virReportOOMError();
>>> + goto cleanup;
>>> + }
>>> +
>>> + cleanup:
>>
>> Is that last goto necessary, since the label is reached next anyways?
>
> Maybe this is a defensive goto, assuming that someday someone may add
> extra code after that if clause. And for the moment it's just a single
> jmp that gets optimized out. (kind of like putting a break on the last
> case of a switch statement. It doesn't do anything now, but may save
> your bacon later if Ralph Wiggum goes playing in your code ;-))

Fair enough :)  Although one would hope that our review process exists 
to shield us somewhat from whatever Ralph Wiggum's coding style throws 
at us :)

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