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I read a paper once that a more ideal goal would be to not aim for goto free code, but instead aim at decompilation output that matches the source input best. The idea being that some C programs are really implemented as gotos and it's more natural to decompile them that way. This suggests some low % of gotos is the best rather than zero. Thoughts?

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I was writing a response to the paper (which compares with rev.ng), but never managed to complete it. I wanted to make a thread on Twitter about it, but it was getting longer and longer, more like a blog post.

If you're really interested, drop me an e-mail and I'll forward it to you.

The bottom line is more or less summarized in my other response in this thread.

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