Does switch statement has a variable size limit?

E_Blue · Joined: 13 Apr 2011 Posts: 417

I'm trying to create a new subroutine that must select between values of a 32bit unsigned integer but when the case is bigger than 65536 I get an error.

"Constant out of the valid range 2097152 is not less than 65536"

My CCS V5.091 and MPLAB 8.92
Device PIC18F67J50

Example:

PCM programmer · Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Posts: 21708

CCS vs. 5.103 gives this error:

E_Blue · Joined: 13 Apr 2011 Posts: 417

So, I should use an if statement or split the int32 into two int16 and evaluate them in a separate switch if the value is higher than 0xFFFF.
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asmboy · Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 2128 Location: albany ny

Have you looked at the code that a switch statement generates? If you need that many switch branches - the serial code execution cycles alone are gonna crush you in the time domain for numinous arguments values, depending on the order of comparison. if you don't need a full deck of 32 bit compares consider a LUT to a smaller compare space and map your 32 bit code bits to that. But if this is linear collection of 32 bit values WTF ? You really don't care about execution speed or code bloat? Don't you have a better way to do what you want to do using indexed vars ? This feels a like C question more than a PIC one.

E_Blue · Joined: 13 Apr 2011 Posts: 417

The branches are not that many, just about 20; but the variable can have 2^24 different values.
Anyway, I solved as mentioned above.
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Ttelmah · Joined: 11 Mar 2010 Posts: 19515

That is actually a 'C' limitation.

Historically CCS originally had a limit using an int8, and 256 cases.
ANSI C recommended that systems should support 1023 cases or more,
(from C89), and CCS later expanded the compiler to support int16's for the
case.

However int16, not int32's!.....

A few C's (very few, but MicroSoft in particular), don't have this limitation.

E_Blue · Joined: 13 Apr 2011 Posts: 417

I don't need 1023+ branches, I need that the switch statement handle a 32 bit case variable and just 20 branches.

Anyway, thanks for the info.
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Ttelmah · Joined: 11 Mar 2010 Posts: 19515

The case limit is a limit on the size of what is tested, not just the actual
cases used.

However I have to say that in your 'case', it'd actually probably be much
more efficient to just test for the values yourself (after all something
like 20 cases is a very simple number of tests). Doing a split and then using
two switches on part of the range, just adds complexity to the code, and
will probably be slower and bulkier than just testing.
Consider just something like a macro: