Re: error: jump skips variable initialization

[Paul Eggert]

Bruno Haible wrote:
> Can someone answer this?

I expect the warning is there because of style reasons, not correctness reasons. 
That is, although it's natural when seeing this line:

   int x = 10;

to assume that X must always be initialized, this assumption is incorrect if a 
goto jumps over the declaration. As a style matter, perhaps some C programmers 
want a warning if their code violates this natural assumption.

That being said, the warning is not emitted if the program simply does this 
instead:

   int x; x = 10;

so it does seem a bit ridiculous to enable the warning, and it'd be fine with me 
if we removed it from manywarnings.