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authorSage Weil <sage@inktank.com>2013-08-15 11:11:45 -0700
committerSage Weil <sage@inktank.com>2013-08-15 11:11:45 -0700
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@@ -389,7 +389,8 @@ Albeit deprecated by some people, the equivalent of the goto statement is
used frequently by compilers in form of the unconditional jump instruction.
The goto statement comes in handy when a function exits from multiple
-locations and some common work such as cleanup has to be done.
+locations and some common work such as cleanup has to be done. If there is no
+cleanup needed then just return directly.
The rationale is: