If you are raising an error/exception, shouldn't you be doing that explicitly, instead of just outputting catch all error handling at the end of the routine?
Otherwise, we may as well just do: "on error resume next :-)"
This is C, in the kernel. You can't "raise an exception."
The gotos are necessary because kernel work requires allocating resources. If an error is hit, the function needs to exit, but it also needs to release its resources correctly. But, these resources need to be freed upon normal completion as well. Hence, gotos.
