Bug in C FE or difference between C & C++

[Richard Guenther]

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Bingfeng Mei <bmei@broadcom.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For the following simple example,
>
> int main(void)
> {
>  int a=0;
>  switch (a)
>    {
>    case 0:
>     int b=2;
>     break;
>     }
> }
>
> GCC will complain:
> tst.c: In function 'main':
> tst.c:7:6: error: a label can only be part of a statement and a declaration is not a statement
> G++ will compile silently.
>
> Is this a C FE bug or due to difference between C & C++?

You need a block around the variable declaration.  The error
isn't very helpful here.

Richard.

>
> Thanks,
> Bingfeng
>
>