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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: enum type checking and switches question
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Date: 26 Oct 89 16:28:27 GMT
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In article <1489@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>  Makinging [enum] work in a range checking manner would break a lot of
>programs, but I wish there was a way. Your compiler is not broken for
>failing to perform the checks, that's the way it works.

Lint, on the other hand, ought to be more than welcome to perform the
appropriate checks.  I think Gimpel caught me once on enum, but I dunno
whether or what other implementations do.
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