Re: enumeration value ... not handled in switch

[Daniel Brockman <daniel at brockman dot se>]

Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se> writes:

> Consider the following code:
>
>    struct fruit
>    {
>      enum { APPLE, MELON, ORANGE } type;
>      ...
>    } fruit;
>
>    ...
>
>    switch (fruit.type)
>      {
>        case APPLE:
>          ...; break;
>        case MELON:
>          ...; break;
>        case ORANGE:
>          ...; break;
>      }
>
> Here, as soon as another value is added to the enum, gcc will warn
> about the switch statement not handling it.
>
> But what if `fruit_type' is neither `APPLE' nor `ORANGE'?

What I really meant to say here was the following:

But what if `fruit_type' is neither `APPLE', `MELON', nor `ORANGE'?


Apologies,

-- 
Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>