case statement allows for runtime values,

[bearophile]

Andrej Mitrovic:

> Got it. Bug is reported.

Good.


> You can compare anything in an if statement, so why is switch more limited?

switch has stronger requirements than a series of if statements and its uses such extra information to create assembly code that's more efficient than a series of if statement, like a dense jump table. (And in some situations there are ways to produce something even better, if you need to emulate a state machine or an interpreter. You are able to do it in GCC with computed gotos).

Bye,
bearophile