Dubious C code

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <5251 at cognos.UUCP> alanm at cognos.UUCP (Alan Myrvold) writes:
>I didn't realize that a CASE statement within the body of a FOR loop
>was legitimate C code, and just a stupid algorithm.

Surprise!

>VAX/VMS cc does have the sense to complain :
>%CC-E-NOTSWITCH, Default labels and case labels are
>		valid only in "switch" statements.

That compiler is broken -- the case label WAS inside a switch body.

I admit that making use of this language feature is almost always
ill-advised (and, apparently, not portable to VAX/VMS).  "Duff's
device" makes use of it in an essential way, though..