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Please don't use #2. It is how you get the goto fail bug
Should you even be using goto? I was taught to avoid it like the plague
Apple wrote bugged TLS code that broke using unbraced ifs with a goto, hence the name "goto fail". You don't need a goto to break this code though. All you need is a second indented line under the
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