These are not the same thing. The GOTO people complained about and what the famous article "GOTO considered harmful" is about, is called longjmp in C. Nearly

These are not the same thing. The GOTO people complained about and what the famous article "GOTO considered harmful" is about, is called longjmp in C. Nearly all C programmers will agree with you that you shouldn't use longjmp. The goto of C has less freedom for control flow than try-catch constructs in other languages.