Scope of switch statements

[Henry Spencer]

In article <15743 at bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> tada at athena.mit.edu (Michael J Zehr) writes:
>is this obfuscated code not ANSI or is the compiler broken?  

It is legal, although ugly, ANSI C.  Also legal (but ugly) traditional C.
Dennis Ritchie himself has officially blessed this disgusting construct,
and indeed it has one or two legitimate uses.
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