Michael Meissner writes:
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 07:54:33PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 06:59:24PM +0100, Franz Sirl wrote:
>>> It's required by ISO C, and since that's the standard now, gcc
>>> spits out a warning. Just adding a ; is enough and already
>>> done for most stuff in 2.4.0-test12.
...
>> 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 ;)
>
> Because neither
>
> <label>: (nor)
> case <expr>: (nor)
> default:
>
> are statements by themselves.
For the GNU C language they are. For the ISO C language they are not.
If there had been a flag such as -ansi or -std=iso-me-harder then
the warning would be appropriate. Without such a flag, gcc should
shut up and compile the code.
So this is a gcc language standard selection bug.
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