Re: [PATCH] More compile warning fixes for 2.4.0

[Marco Colombo]

On 10 Jan 2001, Alan Shutko wrote:

> Marco Colombo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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