Hi Steve, I don't believe we have an official statement of the native code style, so that's something that would be beneficial.
To address your immediate question, yes, it is acceptable to use goto in error checking logic to jump to a labeled cleanup routine. This is an established pattern throughout the native codebase. One example file is NativeIO.c. Chris Nauroth Hortonworks http://hortonworks.com/ On 2/3/15, 1:39 PM, "Steve Loughran" <ste...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > >Do we have a native code style guide? > >Specifically, it is OK to use goto as a way of bailing out of things and >into some memory release logic as part of some JNI exception generation >routine? > >Don't worry, I'm asking on behalf of someone else > > >-Steve > >ps: what I have been intermittently doing is writing a proper style guide >for the Java side of things. > >https://github.com/steveloughran/formality/blob/master/styleguide/stylegui >de.md
