> >Be aware that this function will use more stack space than it needs to: gcc
> >will create a separate stack slot for all the above locals.
> >
> >Hence it would be better to declare them all at the start of the function.
> >Faster, too - less dcache footprint.
> >
> >Maybe not as nice from a purist point of view, but it does allow you to
> >lose those braces in the switch statement...
> >
> >
> Hmm, I assumed that gcc would optimize and allocate the stack as it
> needed it without waste. Ok, easy enough to fix.
latest gcc does the right thing; older gcc don't though.
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