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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Type of expression in switch statement
Message-ID: <1517@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 30 Oct 89 15:15:44 GMT
References: <1989Oct30.043155.1931@eng.umd.edu> <20448@mimsy.umd.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <20448@mimsy.umd.edu>, chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
|  Incidentally, switch expressions of type `long' are now legal as well,
|  so this error message should be changed to `... not integral type'.

  Actually as you say "integeral types" are allowed, including short,
char and enum I would assume.
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