C Bug (he meekly asks) ?

[Kartik Subbarao]

In article <1991Mar26.235622.20057 at colorado.edu> rainer at boulder.Colorado.EDU (Rainer Malzbender) writes:
>I inadvertently typed "case_3:" instead of "case 3:" in a 'switch'
>statement. Now I'm certainly no guru on the arcane features of the
>C language, but shouldn't this be illegal and at least cause a
>compiler error? My program compiled and ran fine. As far as I can tell
>from the .s output (I don't grok R3000 assembler) it just trashed
>the whole clause.

Realize that ':' also stands for a label in C, and so your case_3:
statement was treated as a label, where later in the program you could
possibly say "goto case_3". Certainly not what you intended, but nevertheless
quite legal.

				-Kartik
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