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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:57:15 -0800
From: Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>
To: lucio@proxima.alt.za,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] C compiler error?
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Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za> once said:
> New features in Go require a new function in the reflect.c module
> (src/cmd/gc/reflect.c).  The C compiler (8c, in this case) reports an
> error which does not seem to apply:
>
> 8c -I/go/include -I/go/386/include -FTVw ../gc/reflect.c
> ../gc/reflect.c:987 switch expression must be integer
>
> This is a bit of a stumbling block.  I'm hoping there's someone on
> this mailing list that can address this problem quicker than it would
> be possible for me.  More details off line.

Yup.  8c won't allow this.  If you we're using 6c
you could have a vlong in a switch expression.

I sent out a CL for this:
https://codereview.appspot.com/5486049/

  Anthony