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From: HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: c68 has a switch bug
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Date: 3 Mar 91 14:30:28 GMT
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Well, this bug report urged me to ship out the last posting.
I have hesitated shipping out patch1 since I was busy and since I got
some bug reports. I have tried to send fixes to those who sent bug
reports, but this one was the first to go over the net...

Your solution (calling g_cast) is potentially weak.
Although it works at the moment, you cannot control the bahviour of
g_cast forever. It is dangerous to call g_cast
from a totally different module (normaly I would say it is only legal to
call g_expr, g_cast may well become static one day).

My solution was to do a swith statement here and to handle the types
char, unsigned char, short, and unsigned short specially.

C.v.W.