Re: compilartion error : label at end of compound statement

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 04:07:52PM +0900, Gowri Satish Adimulam wrote:

> Hi ,
> Iam trying to compile simple application with mips cross compiler ,

You didn't say which one.

(Fortunately it's obvious enough in this case)

> Iam getting the below error , 
> i tried to google but unable to find relavent solution
> 
> any pointers will be helpful , 
> 
> ===============error==========
> 
> mipsel-linux-uclibc-gcc -Wall    -c -o ls.o ls.c
> ls.c: In function `donlist':
> ls.c:591: error: label at end of compound statement

Something like:

        switch (x) {
        case 3:
        }

will result in this error message in C9x.  Solution:  insert a semicolon
like:

        switch (x) {
        case 3:
        ;
        }

The reason is that the C stanadard requires - and thus gcc since 3.4 (?) -
a label to be followed by a statement and a semicolon alone is already
an statement.

  Ralf