[SOLVED]error: a label can only be part of a statement...

[MadPumpkin]

I'm writing a brainfuck interpreter in C, and I'm having issues with some code. I'm not used to gcc, but I haven't had a programming problem (that I couldn't solve) in a long time, and this is different than the code I normally write.
A ',' in brainfuck is supposed to take a single character input. So:

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// This is just what ptr is
static char *ptr;
// Here's the code causing error
case ',':
	ptr*=getchar();
	break;

This is causing an error:

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error: a label can only be part of a statement and a declaration is not a statement 

I really have no idea why

[Aleios]

Is case ',': in a switch statement? if not, then there is your problem.
if static char *ptr; is inside a switch statement but not under a case label, then that may be your issue.

[MadPumpkin]

Yea it was in a switch, I'm just so used to writing this shit in code that I forget it when I talk about what the issue is, expecting that it's assumed :P. Sorry about that. But I figured out what the problem was, it wasn't even with this part of the code, it was with something I commented out at the same time, which led my belief that it was the issue. I simply forgot { and } inside of a different case, when I was declaring a variable in that case.

EDIT: Stupid mistakes ftw.