Re: Fix idiocy in previous patch

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Guys,

> > No, you've worked out how switch statements *ought* to work :-)

> Definitely.  I propose to consider this episode as a compelling argument for 
> switching Binutils to Ada[*] as soon as possible. ;-)
>
> [*] the "case" statement in Ada does The Right Thing wrt to flow-of-control.

Ah - I remember the glorious days of programming in BBC BASIC.  It had a 
wonderful switch statement where the code on the same line as the label 
would only be executed for the condition that matched the label, but 
then unless you had a break statement it would drop through as normal. 
This meant that you could have conditional initialisation to a generic 
body of code, sort of like this:

   switch (foo)
     {
     case 0: prefix="hi";
     case 1: prefix="bye";
     case 2: prefix="ciao";
       strcpy (buffer, "%s Nick", prefix);
       break;
    }

Cheers
  Nick