From: brennan AT news DOT rt66 DOT com (Brennan "The Rev. Bas" Underwood)
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Subject: Re: How is switch implemented?
Date: 22 Apr 1997 15:34:07 -0600
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In article <97Apr14.121115gmt+0100 DOT 21890 AT internet01 DOT amc DOT de>,
Chris Croughton  <crough45 AT amc DOT de> wrote:
>(Yes, I know C doesn't allow case ranges in switch statements.  In my
>opinion it's a serious failure of the language...)

GCC's extended C does! Just do
switch (c) {
  case 0 ... 12:

  case 47 ... 88:
}

Note the space between the range endpoints and the ellipses.


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