> why not immediately initialize the variable?

Uhmmm, yes maybe it is better. I set the value there because I
thought it was better to have all the assignations near between
them, so it was easier to know what was the value of err in
the call to die.

> Also I think this (unmarked!) fallthrough way harder to grasp at the first
> glance. What benefit at all do we get from the patch?

I am used to fallthrough (maybe because I didn't put mark ever),
but maybe is not the same for all the programmers :?.
This patch is more about style that real benefit of the changes. I
usually reuse all the possible paths of a switch to avoid code duplication.

Regards,

-- 
Roberto E. Vargas Caballero

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