On 02/05/2014 09:12 AM, Tom Musta wrote:
> On 2/5/2014 3:43 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> I would've expected the compiler to emit a warning at this point because you're declaring variables outside of the beginning of a scope?
>

Only if you enforce C89 compilation.  But qemu requires a C99 compiler,
where it is not a warning in gcc unless you enable -Wjump-misses-init
and have a goto statement that bypasses the declaration.

> I did not see a warning on either of my test platforms (PowerPC/RHEL/GCC 4.4.7, Intel/Ubuntu/GCC 4.6.3).  But I will certainly fix.

Whether or not the compiler enforces it, some projects still like to
stick to C89 declarations-before-statements, even when otherwise
requiring C99 compiler features.

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