I do remember frequently getting tripped up on them right after undergrad. It's not friendly, and I don't ever wish to touch them again. So it’s something bad

I do remember frequently getting tripped up on them right after undergrad. It's not friendly, and I don't ever wish to touch them again. So it’s something bad from the undergrad past, no details. Must we take an advice based on that? I’m not sure I will. I'm working in a C++ game engine project right now and it's constantly segfaulting. I can't imagine that setting register jumps manually in complex higher level code would improve my situation. Neither would tabooing something based on weak or no evidence. “It doesn’t help here” and “we ban it and ostracize its use” are two different claims.