switch statement question

[Greg Hosler <hosler at lugs dot org dot sg>]

Hi,

I have a switch / case statement that is breaking under recent versions of
gcc, that used to be ok. I am guessing that the the language specification
has been tightened up (or the implementation). In my code, the case values are
longs (as opposed to int's) - I get compiler warnings, and it appears that 
either the case code is not generated, or the switch is not handling the long's
in the fashion that it used to.

what is the definition of what is allowed for the "case values" of
switch statements ?

thank you, and regards,

-Greg

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