Re: [PATCH] More compile warning fixes for 2.4.0

Marco Colombo (marco@esi.it)
Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:32:09 +0100 (CET)


On 10 Jan 2001, Alan Shutko wrote:

> Marco Colombo <marco@esi.it> writes:
>
> > But what happens if I delete the stm1 line? We have:
> >
> > case xxx:
> > /* fallthrough */
> > case yyy:
> > stm2;
> >
> > which is wrong.
>
> AFAIK, that's perfectly correct. It's only the case where you have a
> label at the end of a block (without a statement following it) where
> it's an error.
>
> In the grammar, a statement must follow a label, but a
> labeled-statement is a type of statement, so you can stack labels as
> much as you want, as long as there's a statement somewhere after them.
>
> That is, assuming I'm reading the standard right (ISO/IEC 9899:1990,
> Section 6.6, 6.6.1).

Opps, sorry, I misunderstood Linus' message, then.

.TM.

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