Bug#207269: gcc-3.3: require semi-colon after do{}while()

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 06:00:31AM +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote:
> Package: gcc-3.3
> Version: 1:3.3.1-0pre0
> Severity: normal
> Tags: upstream
> 
> GCC, for C and C++, doesn't require any semi-colon after a while(){}
> structure (and shouldn't, AFAIK), but require it after a do{}while().
> 
> Compiling the attached file triggers the following error, and the
> compilation works great when applying the following patch:
> 
> $ gcc -o control control.c
> control.c: In function `main':
> control.c:8: error: syntax error before '}' token
> $ gcc -o control control.non-standard.c
> $

Why do you believe that this is a bug in GCC?  This is a standard
element of C; braces which denote a block scope do not require a
trailing semicolon but other statements do.

Did other versions of GCC accept this?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer