以下陈述是概括;尽管抗辩例外总是可能的，但通常(以我的经验和拙见)不值得冒险。

Unconstrained use of memory addresses (either GOTO or raw pointers) provides too many opportunities to make easily avoidable mistakes. The more ways there are to arrive at a particular "location" in the code, the less confident one can be about what the state of the system is at that point. (See below.) Structured programming IMHO is less about "avoiding GOTOs" and more about making the structure of the code match the structure of the data. For example, a repeating data structure (e.g. array, sequential file, etc.) is naturally processed by a repeated unit of code. Having built-in structures (e.g. while, for, until, for-each, etc.) allows the programmer to avoid the tedium of repeating the same cliched code patterns. Even if GOTO is low-level implementation detail (not always the case!) it's below the level that the programmer should be thinking. How many programmers balance their personal checkbooks in raw binary? How many programmers worry about which sector on the disk contains a particular record, instead of just providing a key to a database engine (and how many ways could things go wrong if we really wrote all of our programs in terms of physical disk sectors)?

以上附注:

关于第2点，考虑以下代码:

    a = b + 1
    /* do something with a */

在代码中的“do something”点，我们可以高度自信地声明a大于b。(是的，我忽略了未捕获整数溢出的可能性。我们不要拘泥于一个简单的例子。)

另一方面，如果代码是这样读的:

    ...
    goto 10
    ...
    a = b + 1
    10: /* do something with a */
    ...
    goto 10
    ...

标记10的方法的多样性意味着我们必须更加努力才能确信a和b在这一点上的关系。(事实上，在一般情况下，这是不可判断的!)

关于第4点，代码中“去某个地方”的整个概念只是一个比喻。除了电子和光子(用于余热)，CPU内部没有任何东西真正“去”到任何地方。有时候，我们会放弃一个比喻，转而使用另一个更有用的比喻。我记得(几十年前!)遇到过一种语言

    if (some condition) {
      action-1
    } else {
      action-2
    }

通过将action-1和action-2编译为行外无参数例程，然后使用单个双参数VM操作码(使用条件的布尔值来调用其中一个)在虚拟机上实现。这个概念只是“选择现在调用什么”，而不是“去这里或去那里”。再一次，换一个比喻。

我唯一同意使用Goto的地方是当你需要处理错误时，每一个特定的错误点都需要特殊的处理。

例如，如果您正在获取资源并使用信号量或互斥，您必须按顺序获取它们，并且应该始终以相反的方式释放它们。

一些代码需要一种非常奇怪的模式来获取这些资源，并且您不能仅仅编写一个易于维护和理解的控制结构来正确处理这些资源的获取和释放以避免死锁。

在没有goto的情况下总是可以做得很好，但在这种情况下和其他一些情况下，goto实际上是更好的解决方案，主要是为了可读性和可维护性。

亚当

在Linux:在Kernel Trap的内核代码中使用goto，有一个与Linus Torvalds和一个“新人”关于在Linux代码中使用goto的讨论。有一些非常好的观点，莱纳斯穿着平常的傲慢:)

一些段落:

莱纳斯:不，你被洗脑了 国安局的人认为尼克劳斯 Wirth其实知道自己是什么 说什么。他没有。他不 我有个该死的线索。”

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莱纳斯:“我觉得goto很好，而且 它们通常比 大量的压痕。”

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莱纳斯:“当然，用愚蠢的语言 就像帕斯卡，在那里标签不能 描述性的，后去可能很糟糕。”

Since I began doing a few things in the linux kernel, gotos don't bother me so much as they once did. At first I was sort of horrified to see they (kernel guys) added gotos into my code. I've since become accustomed to the use of gotos, in some limited contexts, and will now occasionally use them myself. Typically, it's a goto that jumps to the end of a function to do some kind of cleanup and bail out, rather than duplicating that same cleanup and bailout in several places in the function. And typically, it's not something large enough to hand off to another function -- e.g. freeing some locally (k)malloc'ed variables is a typical case.

I've written code that used setjmp/longjmp only once. It was in a MIDI drum sequencer program. Playback happened in a separate process from all user interaction, and the playback process used shared memory with the UI process to get the limited info it needed to do the playback. When the user wanted to stop playback, the playback process just did a longjmp "back to the beginning" to start over, rather than some complicated unwinding of wherever it happened to be executing when the user wanted it to stop. It worked great, was simple, and I never had any problems or bugs related to it in that instance.

Setjmp /longjmp有它们自己的位置——但那个位置是你不太可能只在很长一段时间内访问一次的地方。

编辑:我只是看了一下代码。实际上，我使用的是siglongjmp()，而不是longjmp(不是说这是一个大问题，但我已经忘记了siglongjmp的存在。)

在我所见过的每个平台上，高级控制结构都被实现为低级的goto(跳转)。例如，Java虚拟机有一个跳转字节码，但是没有if、else、while、For等字节码。

其中一些编译器会为一个简单的条件块创建意大利面条代码。

回答你的问题，去走仍然被那些认为它有害的人认为是有害的。Goto很容易失去结构化编程的优点。

最后，这是你的程序;所以你的决定。我建议在您能够自己回答问题之前不要使用goto，而是在特定问题的上下文中使用。

今天，很难看出GOTO语句有什么大不了的，因为“结构化编程”的人赢得了这场辩论，今天的语言有足够的控制流结构来避免GOTO。

计算现代C程序中goto的数量。现在添加break、continue和return语句的数量。此外，加上你使用if、else、while、switch或case的次数。这是1968年Dijkstra写这封信时，如果你用FORTRAN或BASIC语言编写程序，你的程序会有多少个goto。

当时的编程语言缺乏控制流程。例如，在最初的达特茅斯BASIC中:

IF statements had no ELSE. If you wanted one, you had to write: 100 IF NOT condition THEN GOTO 200 ...stuff to do if condition is true... 190 GOTO 300 200 REM else ...stuff to do if condition is false... 300 REM end if Even if your IF statement didn't need an ELSE, it was still limited to a single line, which usually consisted of a GOTO. There was no DO...LOOP statement. For non-FOR loops, you had to end the loop with an explicit GOTO or IF...GOTO back to the beginning. There was no SELECT CASE. You had to use ON...GOTO.

因此，您的程序中最终出现了许多goto。并且您不能依赖于goto限制在单个子例程中(因为GOSUB…RETURN是一个非常弱的子例程概念)，所以这些goto可以去任何地方。显然，这使得控制流难以遵循。

这就是反goto运动的由来。