switch question in recog.c

Chris Lattner sabre@nondot.org
Tue Oct 7 19:31:00 GMT 2003


> Huh. I would have failed that question miserably after using the
> language for 20 years. It would never occur to me to put a case after
> the default label, let alone inside a control structure of some sort.
> How miserable :-) But you are right, the standard doesnt appear to
> disallow it that I can see.

If you like this, you might like "Duff's Device", which abuses switch
statements even worse:
http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/duffs-device.html

I'm happy LLVM doesn't have to worry about this stuff. :)

-Chris

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