This is a discussion on constant integeral expression? within the C Programming forums, part of the General Programming Boards category; i'v been reading the tutorial about the switch statement on this website( http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/c/lesson5.html ) and it mentions that the switch ...
i'v been reading the tutorial about the switch statement on this website(http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/c/lesson5.html) and it mentions that the switch statement can't be used with "constant integeral expressions". exactly what is a "constant integeral expressions"?
It says exactly the opposite and gives an example of non-working code. For cases you need literals: case 10: or case 'A': etc
sorry, typing error. so what are literals?
They are compile time constants. You can't switch constants defined in your program.
#define etc.
Yes, you can, if the #defines are literals themselves. The compiler never sees the pre-preprocessor code so it doesn't care.They are compile time constants. You can't switch constants defined in your program.
#define etc.
You just can't use an expression that must be evaluated at runtime, egCode:#define YES 0 #define NO 1 /* ... */ switch(answer) { case YES: break; case NO: break; }
You can use a constant expression, as long as that expression can be evaluated by the compiler (I think, not sure on this one):Code:int x; switch(y) { case x: }
It's like initializing a global/static variable.Code:int array[BUFSIZ]; switch(size) { case sizeof(array)/sizeof(*array): }
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> exactly what is a "constant integeral expressions"?
const - as in not a variable
So you can't have case myVariable:
integral - as in being an integer, and not a pointer or a float
So you can't have case "hello": or case PI:
expression - as in using simple arithmetic operators.
Eg
case 10:
case '\n':
case 5+5:
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but you can't have the defines in switch expression.Originally Posted by dwks
Code:switch(YES){ }
> but you can't have the defines in switch expression.
Of course you can.
It's dumb, not illegal - that's all.
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Yep, that's right.
it's useless.
Unless you're trying to implement an 11-bit ALU in the preprocessor or something similiarly insane...
Code:#include <stdio.h> void J(char*a){int f,i=0,c='1';for(;a[i]!='0';++i)if(i==81){ puts(a);return;}for(;c<='9';++c){for(f=0;f<9;++f)if(a[i-i%27+i%9 /3*3+f/3*9+f%3]==c||a[i%9+f*9]==c||a[i-i%9+f]==c)goto e;a[i]=c;J(a);a[i] ='0';e:;}}int main(int c,char**v){int t=0;if(c>1){for(;v[1][ t];++t);if(t==81){J(v[1]);return 0;}}puts("sudoku [0-9]{81}");return 1;}
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