switch() difficulties in gcc v1.35

[weisen at eniac.seas.upenn.edu]

It's been a while since this happened so I don't have the code lying
around, but....

I am using gcc v1.35 under DEC's ULTRIX.  I was diligently working on
a project that was due the next morning when quite a bit of my time
was taken up trying to find a really weird bug.  As it turns out, I
misspelled `default' as `defualt' in a switch statement.  The code
compiled without an error, however the `defualt' was never executed;
it just dropped out of the switch.  Is this a bug or is there a
rational `C' explanation for this?


Neil


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