Hi, I've seen the following code, taken from the libb64 project. I'm trying to understand what is the purpose of the while loop within the switch block -

switch (state_in->step)
    {
        while (1)
        {
    case step_a:
            do {
                if (codechar == code_in+length_in)
                {
                    state_in->step = step_a;
                    state_in->plainchar = *plainchar;
                    return plainchar - plaintext_out;
                }
                fragment = (char)base64_decode_value(*codechar++);
            } while (fragment < 0);
            *plainchar    = (fragment & 0x03f) << 2;
    case step_b:
            do {
                if (codechar == code_in+length_in)
                {
                    state_in->step = step_b;
                    state_in->plainchar = *plainchar;
                    return plainchar - plaintext_out;
                }
                fragment = (char)base64_decode_value(*codechar++);
            } while (fragment < 0);
            *plainchar++ |= (fragment & 0x030) >> 4;
            *plainchar    = (fragment & 0x00f) << 4;
    case step_c:
            do {
                if (codechar == code_in+length_in)
                {
                    state_in->step = step_c;
                    state_in->plainchar = *plainchar;
                    return plainchar - plaintext_out;
                }
                fragment = (char)base64_decode_value(*codechar++);
            } while (fragment < 0);
            *plainchar++ |= (fragment & 0x03c) >> 2;
            *plainchar    = (fragment & 0x003) << 6;
    case step_d:
            do {
                if (codechar == code_in+length_in)
                {
                    state_in->step = step_d;
                    state_in->plainchar = *plainchar;
                    return plainchar - plaintext_out;
                }
                fragment = (char)base64_decode_value(*codechar++);
            } while (fragment < 0);
            *plainchar++   |= (fragment & 0x03f);
        }
    }

What can give the while? It seems that anyway, always the switch will perform only one of the cases. Did I miss something?

Thanks.