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<style> BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }</style>I haven't explored it too deeply myself, but from what I understand, a jump table is only generated if there are a large number of branches (over 50). If it's just a handful of branches, it simply subtracts values from the input corresponding to the differences between the case labels, and jumping to the next subtraction if there's a mismatch, or to the else block if it goes negative. I'm not sure what it does for strings though.<br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">On Mon 13/08/18 16:20 , Marco Borsari via fpc-devel fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org sent:<br>
</span><blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #F5F5F5 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px">Hello,
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I would need a clarification about the way the case statement is
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translated into assembler by FPC. When the list of alternatives is
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continous, does the compiler generate a jump table? And if yes, there is
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some conditions for which a fall-through is performed anyway?
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Thank you, Marco Borsari
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