In this case goto is used as a form of "exception" handling, which is a perfectly fine use case for goto if you have an imperative language like C without excep

In this case goto is used as a form of "exception" handling, which is a perfectly fine use case for goto if you have an imperative language like C without exceptions or exception handling mechanisms. In fact it would probably be bad style not to use goto in this case. If you have a better way to express the control flow you should use it instead though.