Long Branches

[jsdy at hadron.UUCP]

In article <3950007 at nucsrl.UUCP> ram at nucsrl.UUCP (Raman Renu) writes:
>   I have a problem in using the C compiler and VAX assembler in our local
>4.3BSD(VAX) site.  I have a program which has a huge(>900lines) switch
>statement.
>The assembler chokes on (>32K long) long branches.

We had this problem on an Altos [29]86, 8086 Xenix machine.
Never thought that I'd see it on a Vax!  The compiler should
correctly interpret this.  However, the only portable solution
we could figure out that was (relatively) quick and easy was
to translate the case into if/else if/else if/ ...

Speaking of which, I'd like to promote the use of the form:
	if (...) {
		...
	} else if (...) {
		...
	} else if (...) {
		...  ...
	}
instead of indenting each successive "if".  Where appropriate
only, of course.  This is advocated in one of the early C Style
books.
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