Declarations in switches, errors

[Tom Karzes]

In article <561 at crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen at crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
-This is an error in the compilers! As ugly as this is, the ANSI standard
-(3.1.2.4) says "If an initialization is specified for the value stored
-in the object, it is performed on each normal entry, but not if the
-block is entered by a jump to a label."

Switching into a block via a switch statement clearly consitutes entering
the block by a jump to a label.  No code between the beginning of the block
and the case label should be executed, including dynamic initializations of
any automatic variables declared in the block.