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Re: case labels

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Subject: Re: case labels
From: CBFalconer
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:59:10 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c 

aarklon@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> why general integer expressions are not allowed in case labels in
> switch statements..????

Because a common switch implementation is an indexed jump through a
fixed table of destinations.

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