Re: cc-mode adds newlines

[David Kastrup]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Do you think it would be appropriate for cc-mode to insert a
>     semicolon in a context like  label: }  where the standard does
>     not accept empty statements? For example automatically, when
>     the file is saved?
>
> Note that GCC accepts this too, as an extension.

No more.

> It is not valid ISO C, but it is valid GNU C.
> In designing GNU software, valid GNU C is a more
> important criterion than valid ISO C.

<URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/changes.html>

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C/Objective-C/C++

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    * The undocumented extension that allowed C programs to have a
      label at the end of a compound statement, which has been
      deprecated since GCC 3.0, has been removed.

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