Re: break bug

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  • Posted by jaygade Nov 09, 2012
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bryanso said...

What is the logical motivation or perhaps historical limitation for C to allow fall through in switch statements? It's not intuitive and is a cause of many accidental bugs (at least for me).

I think it has to do with the way the original C code was compiled to assembly/machine language.

I believe that a switch statement usually just compiles into a calculated jump/goto, and each case is just a piece of code that is jumped into. In older memory-constrained computers, you could save some code space by sharing common code between cases.

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