Empty case branch

Object Pascal — Delphi & Free Pascal

Warning

Reliability

A case branch with no statements silently ignores matching values and may hide bugs

a case branch with no statements silently ignores matching values and may hide bugs.

Why this severity

a case branch with no statements silently ignores matching values and may hide bugs.

Known false positives

intentional fall-through placeholders with a comment.

Remediation example

case Status of
  1: HandleActive;
  2: HandlePending;
end;

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