Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> writes: > Corey Minyard <co...@minyard.net> writes: > >> Is this official coding style? I'm not a big fan of having return >> statements in the middle of functions, I generally only put them at >> the beginning or the end. > > There's nothing in docs/devel/style.rst. > > I count more than 42,000 return statements with indentation > 4. These > are either within some block, or incorrectly indented. I'd bet my own > money that it's the former for pretty much all of them. > > I count less than 130 labels right before a return statement at end of a > function. > > Based on that, I'd say return in the middle of function is > overwhelmingly common in our code.
And with autofree variables it saves on clumsy goto and cleanup handlers. -- Alex Bennée Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro
