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From: fnf@unisoft.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Possible C Compiler Bug?
Message-ID: <76@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Jun-86 17:00:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: unisoft.76
Posted: Mon Jun  9 17:00:08 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 11-Jun-86 00:50:54 EDT
References: <6200004@wvlpdp>
Reply-To: fnf@unisoft.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Organization: UniSoft Systems; Berkeley, CA
Lines: 33

In article <6200004@wvlpdp> john@wvlpdp writes:
>This compiles:
	[deleted]
>here:
>	;
>}
>
>This will not:
	[deleted]
>here:
>}
>	Is this a compiler bug?

No, though some broken compilers may accept it.  From K&R page 204:

	Any *statement* may be preceded by label prefixes..

	The null statement has the form

		;

	A null statement is useful to carry a label just before the
	} of a compound statement...

Bottom line is that you must "attach" the label to a statement, even if
only the null statement.

-Fred

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