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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Scope of switch statements
Message-ID: <11607@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 15 Nov 89 23:02:14 GMT
References: <15743@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <1989Nov9.200639.8868@utzoo.uucp> <1989Nov14.104203.26192@gdt.bath.ac.uk>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
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In article <1989Nov14.104203.26192@gdt.bath.ac.uk> exspes@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee) writes:
>In particular, if you branch (via the switch) to one of the cases
>inside the {}'s of the for, are you then under control of the for?

In C you may always branch to a label within a control construct such
as the body of a "for" statement, whether or not a "switch" is involved.
The associated semantics are fairly obvious if you grok the notions of
labels, identifier scopes, and initialization of variables.