From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21635 invoked by alias); 8 Apr 2012 16:03:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 21626 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Apr 2012 16:03:29 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-ob0-f175.google.com (HELO mail-ob0-f175.google.com) (209.85.214.175) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 08 Apr 2012 16:03:16 +0000 Received: by obbuo13 with SMTP id uo13so5330697obb.20 for ; Sun, 08 Apr 2012 09:03:16 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.60.18.137 with SMTP id w9mr6206635oed.7.1333900996098; Sun, 08 Apr 2012 09:03:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.92.168 with HTTP; Sun, 8 Apr 2012 09:03:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1333900786.14645.YahooMailClassic@web125406.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1333900786.14645.YahooMailClassic@web125406.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2012 16:03:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Switch statement case range From: Gabriel Dos Reis To: Rick Hodgin Cc: gcc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2012-04/txt/msg00239.txt.bz2 On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Rick Hodgin wrote: > What are the possibilities of adding a GCC extension to allow: > > switch (foo) { > case 1: > case 2: > case 3 to 8: > case 9: > default: > } > > in C/C++ case statements? GCC used to have a range extension for case: case 3..8 which has been removed. Back to the future? -- Gaby