Language standards vary (was Code Generation for Switch Statements)

David Spuler quotes Hank Dietz:
>BTW, the C and Pascal constructs are VERY different -- and I'm not just
>talking about the fact that C cases can fall through. Pascal explicitly
>states that values not listed cause undefined behavior, whereas C promises
>that such values cause all cases to be skipped.


The C and Pascal standards are VERY different. Pascal explicity states that
values not listed cause dynamic violations, which MUST be diagnosed by
conforming implementations.


As a general rule, language standards vary immensely in the amount of error
checking that they require, and in what kind of misbehavior is allowed to
occur. It is advisable to RTFS.


-- Norman Diamond diamond@jit081.enet.dec.com
[Aha. So the switch code is really the same, except that in Pascal the
default case always goes to an error routine. -John]
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