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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Integer type extension and switch
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janus <emekamicro@gmail.com> writes:
> Why is the below not printing anything at all?
>
>   #include<stdio.h>
>   int main()
>   {
>           int a=10;
>           switch(a)
>           {
>                   case '1':
>                       printf("ONE\n");
>                       break;
>                   case '2':
>                       printf("TWO\n");
>                       break;
>                   defa1ut:
>                       printf("NONE\n");
>           }
>           return 0;
>   }

I suspect you're already aware that you misspelled the "default"
keyword.  "defa1ut:" is an ordinary label that could be used as the
target of a goto.

Strictly speaking there's no guarantee that '1' and '2' have values
other than 10, but they don't in any actual implementation I've ever
heard of.

It would have been more subtle if you'd written "defau1t".

An unrelated point: "int main(void)" is more explicit than "int main()"
and doesn't rely on an obsolescent feature.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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