The current issue occured on gcc version 8.5.0, can not been seen in the latest gcc version. $ make -j8 lzo symbols.c: In function ‘namespace_ctl’: symbols.c:3358:3: error: a label can only be part of a statement and a declaration is not a statement char demangled[BUFSIZE] = {0}; ^~~~ make[5]: *** [Makefile:403: symbols.o] Error 1 make[5]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... ... crash build failed ... Let's put the declaration at the beginning of this function to fix such cases. Reported-by: Tao Liu <ltao(a)redhat.com&gt; Signed-off-by: Lianbo Jiang <lijiang(a)redhat.com&gt; --- symbols.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/symbols.c b/symbols.c index f9eb51f6cd63..112bcc630bf2 100644 --- a/symbols.c +++ b/symbols.c @@ -3325,6 +3325,7 @@ namespace_ctl(int cmd, struct symbol_namespace *ns, void *nsarg1, void *nsarg2) char *name; long cnt; int len; + char demangled[BUFSIZE] = {0}; switch (cmd) { @@ -3355,7 +3356,6 @@ namespace_ctl(int cmd, struct symbol_namespace *ns, void *nsarg1, void *nsarg2) return TRUE; case NAMESPACE_INSTALL: - char demangled[BUFSIZE] = {0}; sp = (struct syment *)nsarg1; name = (char *)nsarg2; len = strlen(name)+1; -- 2.50.1