Re: methods used by compilers for switch{ case } statements?

Fraser and Hanson's book "A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and
Implementation" has a good discussion of some of these issues.


Here's a list of resources from an 1997 comp.compilers post by
Steve Walk. I saved it just for situations such as this!




%A Sampath Kannan
%A Todd A. Proebsting
%T "Correction to 'Producing Good Code for the Case Statement'"
%J Software - Practice & Experience
%D 1994
%M February
%K Case Statement


%A Robert Bernstein
%T "Producing Good code for the Case Statement"
%J Software - Practice & Experience
%V 15
%N 10
%M October
%D 1985
%P 1021-1024
%K Case Statement


%A John L. Hennessy
%A Noah Mendelsohn
%T "Compilation of the Pascal Case Statement"
%J Software - Practice and Experience
%V 12
%N 9
%M September
%D 1982
%P 879-882
%K PASCAL
%K Case Statement


%A A. Sale
%T "The Implementation of Case Statements in PACAL"
%J Software - Practice & Experience
%V 11
%D 1981
%P 929-942
%K Case Statement


%A D. A. Spuler
%T "Compiler Code Generation for Multiway Branch Statements
                as a Static Search Problem"
%G Technical Report 94/03
%M January
%D 1994
%I Department of Computer Science, James Cook University, Australia
%K Case Stateme


mathog@seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu wrote:
: Can someone please point me to an online reference which describes the
: mechanism(s) compilers use to implement the switch/case statement in
: C?


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