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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Declarations in switches, errors
Message-ID: <11189@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 30 Sep 89 00:48:55 GMT
References: <561@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <11158@smoke.BRL.MIL> <637@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <637@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>I have no strong feelings about whether it should or shouldn't work, but
>it should be predictable. That's what standards are all about, right?

The Standard specifies precisely what happens here.  It is not
implementation-dependent.