Possible bug in the SUN C compiler
Guy Harris
guy at gorodish.Sun.COM
Tue Jun 14 09:57:29 AEST 1988
> The problem is that the compiler allows one to use variables of struct type
> as switch selectors. This can't be right. Can it???
No, it can't.
> Below is a code fragment which compiles without error on SUN OS version 3.5.
"Fixed in 4.0". Some versions of PCC didn't catch this; 4.3BSD's and SunOS
4.0's versions have been fixed to do so (although 4.3BSD's just issues a
warning, for some unknown reason; ours considers this an error).
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