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From: jso@edison.UUCP (John Owens)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Generating code for the switch statement
Message-ID: <840@edison.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Aug-86 18:13:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: edison.840
Posted: Thu Aug 14 18:13:49 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 17-Aug-86 05:49:12 EDT
References: <15093@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <2765@brl-smoke.ARPA> <610@hropus.UUCP>
Organization: General Electric Company, Charlottesville, VA
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Summary: There is a compiler which does both code and branch tables.

In article <610@hropus.UUCP>, ka@hropus.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) writes:
> If the cases are not consecutive, the branch table must be filled with
> entries for the "missing" cases, making the table larger.  [....]  If
> the cases are mostly consecutive with a few outliers, a branch table
> could be augmented with a few specific tests for the outliers, but I
> don't know of any compiler that does this.

The Microsoft Pascal/Fortran compilers, at least some of the old
ones (3.04 and 3.11) do this.  I haven't tried it to see if their
wonderful new code generators do.

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