Declarations in switches, errors

[Shankar Unni]

> Note the initialization in the 4th statement. I was unable to find any
> compiler which generated working code for this initialization (although
> one did complain that the code was not reached). I tried Sun, Ultrix,
> Xenix and gcc compilers.

Did you consider the remote possibility that the compilers were right and
you were wrong in your proposition?

Read the Dec 88 draft of the proposed ANSI C standard (pages 78,79) for a
good explanation of this. The operative word that it uses is "jump". Not a
normal flow of control, by any stretch of imagination.
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