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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Date: 15 Dec 2000 11:18:35 -0800
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Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> writes:

> x()
> {
> 
> 	switch (1) {
> 	case 0:
> 	case 1:
> 	case 2:
> 	case 3:
> 	;
> 	}
> }
> 
> Why am I required to put a `;' only in the last case and not in all
> the previous ones? Or maybe gcc-latest is forgetting to complain about
> the previous ones ;)

Your C language knowledge seems to have holes.  It must be possible to
have more than one label for a statement.  Look through the kernel
sources, there are definitely cases where this is needed.

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