I spend a lot of time dicking with embedded C code. I think using goto is reasonable some cases. The classic case is to short circuit a block of code when there

I spend a lot of time dicking with embedded C code. I think using goto is reasonable some cases. The classic case is to short circuit a block of code when there is an error of some sort. function(){ // early returns here. // stuff // more stuff if(oops_err){ goto some_error; } // yet more stuff // normal exit return 0; // bad exit some_error: // clean up return oops_err; } The above is fine, you avoid a convoluted execution path. Or cleanup and a return in the middle of a function. Looking at the top of the function you see early returns. Looking at the end you see the normal and error exits.