The following reply was made to PR c/8548; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Frank.Cornelis@elis.rug.ac.be
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: c/8548: switch-statement
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:05:35 +0100

 Frank.Cornelis@elis.rug.ac.be writes:
 
 |> switch (family) {
 |> case PF_LOCAL:
 |> case PF_UNIX:
 |> break;
 |> }
 |> is not a legal statement according to GCC because the macro's evaluate to the same value. This would be true for case-statements with a break in between, not for case-statements handled by the same body. Should be fixed.
 
 Yes, you should fix your code.
 
 Andreas.
 
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