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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Porting v1.2 to Encore Multimax
Message-ID: <6810@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 27-May-87 22:18:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: mimsy.6810
Posted: Wed May 27 22:18:06 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 29-May-87 01:44:03 EDT
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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Keywords: compiler problems

In article <15830@brunix.UUCP> ajg@csvx002 (Alan J. Gebele) writes:
>The Encore's C compiler will not accept switch statments whose case labels
>are not all in the same block (as in example below).
>(According the Umax manual, this is an anomaly found only in Portable C).

The Umax manual is wrong.  See K&R, pp. 202-203.  No restriction
is made on case labels; case labels are *labels*.  K&R is not
explicit; neither, it seems, is the present dpANS.  Encore has a
case, but I think they are at default. :-/
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