highlighted code code is being generated by the compiler for all switch statements when the level of optimization is lower than Level 4, that DOES NOT EXECUTE. i'm not concerned with eliminating it, which is obviously accomplished by increasing the level of optimization, but i need to know why it's there?????? eg. This is an example of the disassembly associated with a switch statement when optimization set at Level 1...
switch (x) C:0x0013 E508 MOV A,0x08 C:0x0015 120039 LCALL C?CCASE(C:0039) C:0x0018 00 NOP C:0x0019 36 ADDC A,@R0 C:0x001A 00 NOP C:0x001B 00 NOP C:0x001C 36 ADDC A,@R0 C:0x001D 00 NOP C:0x001F 00 NOP C:0x0021 22 RET { case 0: do something case 1: do something .....etc. default: }