linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/2] Compiler Attributes: add support for _

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Date:   Mon, 22 Oct 2018 13:53:14 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@...rovitsch.priv.at>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Compiler Attributes: add support for __fallthrough
 (gcc >= 7.1)

On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 12:45:03PM +0200, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> It's more like
> ----  snip  ----
> 	case 3:
> 		frob();
> 		__fall_through;
> 		/* no break - fall through */
> 	case 4:
> ----  snip  ----
> as "eclipse" doesn't accept anything else.
> 
> And yes, it's far from "beautiful" but I hadn't time to dig into
> eclipses innards to fix that.
> 

Doing both is super ugly.  Let's just do comments until Eclipse gets
updated.

I had wanted to move to the attribute because that would simplify things
in Smatch but it's not a huge deal to delay for another year.

regards,
dan carpenter