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From: ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Type of expression in switch statement
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Date: 30 Oct 89 08:57:56 GMT
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In article <20448@mimsy.umd.edu>, chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
> In article <1989Oct30.043155.1931@eng.umd.edu> nero@eng.umd.edu
> (Oren L. Stern) writes:
	[switch (pointer expression)]
> This was fixed some time ago in 4BSD:
> 	"foo.c", line n: warning: switch expression not type int

"ELXSI 4.3 BSD UNIX" cc accepts it, and lint accepts it.
"UNIX System V Release ax.2.2f ns32332" cc warns but produces workable code,
lint warns.  I don't think this is a PCC compiler.