Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] start using c-ctype functions
Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> +/* Convert C from hexadecimal character to integer. */
> +static int
> +hextobin (unsigned char c)
> +{
> + switch (c)
> + {
> + default: return c - '0';
> + case 'a': case 'A': return 10;
> + case 'b': case 'B': return 11;
> + case 'c': case 'C': return 12;
> + case 'd': case 'D': return 13;
> + case 'e': case 'E': return 14;
> + case 'f': case 'F': return 15;
> + }
> +}
putting the default first feels strange to me, i guess it's the
first time I see a switch that way.
BTW, I too found that odd.
It's copied verbatim from coreutils/src/echo.c ;-)