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Re: Declaration after a label

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
To: "Shaun Jackman" <sjackman at gmail dot com>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 22:04:16 +0200
Subject: Re: Declaration after a label
References: <7f45d9390603311039x7e3dfb92pb1605bc742c2fc8a@mail.gmail.com>

"Shaun Jackman" <sjackman@gmail.com> writes:

> GCC reports an error for this snippet:
>
> int main()
> {
> foo:
> 	int x;
> }
>
> foo.c:4: error: expected expression before 'int'

The C standard only allows labels to occur before statements.  A
declaration is not a statement.

Andreas.

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