Label cannot attach to a declaration

Hi everyone. When I compile the following code using gcc -Wall -Wextra, GCC tells me : "error: a label can only be part of a statement and a declaration is not a statement" for the line after case 2:. I got it to compile by inserting a null statement (ie a semicolon) after the colon in case 2:. Is this correct C99?

Code:

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switch (variable)
{
case 1:
  blah ;
case 2:
char *myptr = strstr (str1 , str2);
...
}

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Post your actual code, and highlight the segment it's talking about. Cases aren't new code blocks though. If you need to declare a variable there:

Code:

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case foo:
{

}
break;

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Quzah.

If you've got declarations specific to cases, you normally write

Code:

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case 2:
{
    char *myptr = strstr (str1 , str2);
    ...
}
break;

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This also works with C89, where your ; trick would not.