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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Declarations in switches, errors
Message-ID: <11281@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 14 Oct 89 04:10:45 GMT
References: <561@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <10041@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <10888@riks.csl.sony.co.jp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <10888@riks.csl.sony.co.jp> diamond@riks. (Norman Diamond) writes:
>Mr. Kremer, you start your reply with "No."  So you think that correct
>execution of a switch statement constitutes abnormal entry to the block.
>I conjecture that very few will agree with you.

You lose, then.  The only use of the term "normal entry into a block" I
could find in the Standard is in 3.1.2.4, where it is contrasted to a
"jump from outside the block to a labeled statement in the block or in
an enclosed block".  The description of "switch" in 3.6.4.2 is quite
explicit that a jump occurs, and that "case" and "default" are labels.