Re: Java Risks (Was: Ada News Brief - 96-05-24

[kingdon@harvey.cyclic.com (Jim Kingdon)]

(I probably have something better to do than following up, but....)

    How about this one which prints nothing because mispelled 'default:'
    is treated as a goto label:

    enum {red,white,blue} color = white;
    switch (color) {
       case red:  printf("red"); break;
       case blue: printf("blue"); /* Fall thru */
       defualt: printf("blue or other color");
    };

My compiler catches this:

bash$ gcc -Wall def.c 
def.c: In function `main':
def.c:9: warning: enumeration value `white' not handled in switch
def.c:8: warning: label `defualt' defined but not used
bash$