On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 07:28:06PM +0530, Anshu Kumari wrote:
> From: Jeskynar <jeskynar@gmail.com>
> 
> Compiling on RHEL8 (gcc-8.5) gives an error in ip.c.
> ip.c:88:3: error: a label can only be part of a statement and
> a declaration is not a statement due to the use of static_assert.
> 
> The fix is to surround it with {}.
> 
> Link: https://bugs.passt.top/show_bug.cgi?id=201
> Signed-off-by: Anshu Kumari <anskuma@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

> ---
>  ip.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/ip.c b/ip.c
> index f2506bb..7b674e0 100644
> --- a/ip.c
> +++ b/ip.c
> @@ -35,9 +35,9 @@ const char *ipproto_name(uint8_t proto)
>  {
>  	switch (proto) {
>  #define CASE(s)								\
> -		static_assert(sizeof(s) <= IPPROTO_STRLEN,		\
> -			      "Increase IPPROTO_STRLEN to contain " #s); \
> -		return s;
> +		{static_assert(sizeof(s) <= IPPROTO_STRLEN,		\
> +			       "Increase IPPROTO_STRLEN to contain " #s); \
> +		return s;}
>  	case IPPROTO_ICMP:
>  		CASE("ICMP");
>  	case IPPROTO_TCP:
> -- 
> 2.54.0
> 

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