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happygimp01004351dSounds like part of my job. Except that there are 300 line long (a single one has 300 lines) switch case statement spaghetti (used like emulated goto).
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nebula1882351di do not know why, but while reading your rant i was thinking about something like this:
"somehow the cooling system in our pyramid does not work anymore. can you fix that? it's all documented with a lot of pictures" -
happygimp01004347d@YADU
#define EMULATED_GOTO(t) position=t; break;
position=0;
while(1)
{
switch(position)
{
case 0:
...
if(foo) { EMULATED_GOTO(3); }
EMULATED_GOTO(2);
case 1:
...
if(!foo) { EMULATED_GOTO(2); }
...
EMULATED_GOTO(0);
case 2:
....
}
}
Not exactly like this, a bit more hidden and with names. But still very hard to read.
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