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It doesn’t help that the whole function is a huge computed goto mutating things, spanning multiple pages.

• messe 3y ago
  …you mean the most common pattern for writing a state machine?
  • anon-3988 3y ago
    There's obviously no better way to write state machines...
    • parasti 3y ago
      Can you elaborate?
      • msla 3y ago
        If they could, they wouldn't have used sarcasm.
      • gdprrrr 3y ago
        Not OP, but in functional languages, state machines are often simply a function (State, Input) -> State
  • diogenes4 3y ago
    This is a well-discussed issue with c memes, not a widespread issue. Even in c, jump tables are a safer alternative.