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Every goto in the Linux kernel / Just another day on the linux-kernel mailing list (youtube.com)
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[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Not really. There are quite a few of structures you can make with gotos that can't directly be translated into functions. Sure, you can implement any functionality in any programming paradigm, but it might require much more work than to just replace goto with a function call.