The following reply was made to PR lib/35489; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andreas Wiese <aw-netbsd@instandbesetzt.net>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: lib/35489: Build fails with -DNDEBUG
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:08:50 +0100

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 Christian Biere wrote:
 >  Andreas Wiese wrote:
 [snip...]
 >  > (BTW: what do these braces do there?)
 > =20
 >  They introduce a new block scope allowing to declare variables. Otherwis=
 e,
 >  you'd have to put it after 'switch (x) {' where it's unnecessarily visib=
 le
 >  beyond the necessary scope.
 > =20
 
 Oh, yeah, thanks.  Should've been clear.  I'm definitely doing too much
 Ruby ;)
 
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