Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: initialization following switch
Message-ID: <1989Apr5.155214.29006@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <8348@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 89 15:52:14 GMT

In article <8348@xanth.cs.odu.edu> kremer@cs.odu.edu (Lloyd Kremer) writes:
>	Initializing a variable after the opening brace of a switch does not
>	work...
>	Is this the pANS conformant behavior?  I'm sure it is, but I don't
>	have a copy to verify it.

Yes.  It's well-hidden, unlike in K&R1 which mentioned it under "switch",
but the Oct draft says explicitly that initializations don't get performed
when the block is entered by a jump into the middle (which is what a switch
does).
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