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From: bet@dukeac.UUCP (Bennett Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Survey of "duplicate case in switch" errors
Message-ID: <1224@dukeac.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 89 17:30:50 GMT
References: <36376@oliveb.olivetti.com> <22640001@hpesrgd.HP.COM>
Reply-To: bet@dukeac.UUCP (Bennett Todd)
Organization: Radiology, Duke Med. Center, Durham, NC
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>HP-UX version 2.0 on a 9000/825 says this:
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>cc: "test.c", line 13: error 1526: Duplicate case constant (5) in switch.
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>Looks right to me, although sometimes I wish I *could* have duplicates.


Me too! What a great idea, duplicate case labels. It would make programming
non-deterministic finite state machines a piece of cake! Maybe we could get
X3J11 to add it in:-).

-Bennett