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Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 08:52:00 -0000
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: C99 parsing error?
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Is it really not permitted to write this in C99?:

	while (--length >= 0)
	  {
	  loop:
	    int byte = *data++;

GCC 3.2.2 reports: parse error before "int"
If I replace "loop:" with "loop:;", it's fine.
Perhaps GCC is correct to reject this, but it is surprising.

-- Jamie