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droprip··on Critical crypto bug leaves Linux, hundreds of apps open to eavesdropping
I am not very familiar with low level C or the coding patterns used with it, so I must ask; why do we see goto statements in both of these recent bugs? As far as I know it's a bad practice overall, is there some specific reason for using it here?