From b57a0505e750b3d7b2d39e9823b276d8ca1a08fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 15:08:08 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/CodingStyle: allow multiple return statements per function A surprising number of newbies interpret this section to mean that only one return statement is allowed per function. Part of the problem is that the "one return statement per function" rule is an actual style guideline that people are used to from other projects. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Cc: Eduardo Valentin Cc: Rob Landley Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/CodingStyle | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle index e00b8f0dde52..7fe0546c504a 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingStyle +++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle @@ -389,7 +389,8 @@ Albeit deprecated by some people, the equivalent of the goto statement is used frequently by compilers in form of the unconditional jump instruction. The goto statement comes in handy when a function exits from multiple -locations and some common work such as cleanup has to be done. +locations and some common work such as cleanup has to be done. If there is no +cleanup needed then just return directly. The rationale is: -- 2.39.5