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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.bug,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: switch() difficulties in gcc v1.35
Message-ID: <1989Dec24.115807.7229@virtech.uucp>
Date: 24 Dec 89 11:58:07 GMT
References: <18472@netnews.upenn.edu> <18485@netnews.upenn.edu>
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In article <18485@netnews.upenn.edu>, weisen@eniac.seas.upenn.edu) (Neil I. Weisenfeld ;-) writes:
> Thanks to all those who gave me (non-obnoxious) replies to my posting.
> I didn't realize that gcc would interpret `defualt' in a case xxx: as
> a label if it hadn't been defined.  Is this non-ANSI C not to give an
> error for undefined and un-prototyped symbols.

How does one define or prototype a statement label?

Interpreting "defualt" as a statement label is correct in all versions of C.
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