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  From: Michael Wardle <michael.wardle@adacel.com>
  To  : Jake Hawkes <jakehawkes2001@yahoo.com>
        <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:41:06 +1100

Re: strange C code

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jake Hawkes" <jakehawkes2001@yahoo.com>
To: <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 12:29 AM
Subject: strange C code


> #include <stdio.h>
>
> void main(void)
> {
>         switch(1)
>         {
>         default:
>                 printf("default");
>         case 2:
>                 printf("2\n");
>                 break;
>         case 1:
>                 printf("1\n");
>                 break;
>         }
> }
>
>
> waddaya reckon the output would be?

I think the thing of interest here is supposed to be the inclusion of
the "default" case at the first case, whereas it is traditionally listed
last.  C seems to do the logical thing here and do case 1, but other
languages (such as Ada) may have different results for equivalent code.

--
MICHAEL WARDLE
Adacel Technologies


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