I know this is general C question rather than SDCC...

In asm, for being able to parse a set of commands I'd write the following:

Commands:
  db   'START',0
  dw   STARTExecute
  db   'STOP',0
  dw   STOPExecute
  db   'DUMP',0
  dw   DUMPExecute

Then, when the receiver buffers a zero-terminated string, it can compare them in a loop with this list, and jump to the appropriate service routine.

How to do something similar in (SDC)C?

Thanks,

Jan Waclawek (the C hater, but now tries to get something to work in C :-) )