Re: 2.2.18 signal.h

From: Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Date: Fri Dec 15 2000 - 14:57:21 EST


On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 11:18:35AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> writes:
>
> > x()
> > {
> >
> > switch (1) {
> > case 0:
> > case 1:
> > case 2:
> > case 3:
> > ;
> > }
> > }
> >
> > Why am I required to put a `;' only in the last case and not in all
> > the previous ones? Or maybe gcc-latest is forgetting to complain about
> > the previous ones ;)
>
> Your C language knowledge seems to have holes. It must be possible to
> have more than one label for a statement. Look through the kernel
> sources, there are definitely cases where this is needed.

I don't understand what you're talking about. Who ever talked about "more than
one label"?

The only issue here is having 1 random label at the end of a compound
statement. Nothing else.

And yes I can see that the whole point of the change is that they want
to also forbids this:

x()
{
        goto out;
out:
}

and I dislike not being allowed to do the above as well infact ;).

Andrea
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