In C a label must precede a statement. A null statement is OK but a closing braces is not. So, catch this situation, emit a warning and continue as if a null statement was there. This occurs currently on v5.10-rc1 because of some ifdefery. Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@xxxxxxxxx> --- parse.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/parse.c b/parse.c index 31ecef0f554d..b6090d38cc61 100644 --- a/parse.c +++ b/parse.c @@ -2468,6 +2468,11 @@ static struct token *statement(struct token *token, struct statement **tree) warn_label_usage(stmt->pos, s->label_pos, s->ident); } s->stmt = stmt; + if (match_op(token, '}')) { + warning(token->pos, "statement expected after label"); + stmt->label_statement = alloc_statement(token->pos, STMT_NONE); + return token; + } return statement(token, &stmt->label_statement); } } -- 2.29.0