Date:   Thu, 26 Nov 2020 17:18:13 +0100
From:   Karol Herbst <kherbst@...hat.com>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 000/141] Fix fall-through warnings for Clang

On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 4:28 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Miguel,
>
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 3:54 PM Miguel Ojeda
> <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 11:44 PM Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@...il.com> wrote:
> > > To make the intent clear, you have to first be certain that you
> > >  understand the intent; otherwise by adding either a break or a
> > >  fallthrough to suppress the warning you are just destroying the
> > >  information that "the intent of this code is unknown".
> >
> > If you don't know what the intent of your own code is, then you
> > *already* have a problem in your hands.
>
> The maintainer is not necessarily the owner/author of the code, and
> thus may not know the intent of the code.
>
> > > or does it flag up code
> > >  that can be mindlessly "fixed" (in which case the warning is
> > >  worthless)?  Proponents in this thread seem to be trying to
> > >  have it both ways.
> >
> > A warning is not worthless just because you can mindlessly fix it.
> > There are many counterexamples, e.g. many
> > checkpatch/lint/lang-format/indentation warnings, functional ones like
> > the `if (a = b)` warning...
>
> BTW, you cannot mindlessly fix the latter, as you cannot know if
> "(a == b)" or "((a = b))" was intended, without understanding the code
> (and the (possibly unavailable) data sheet, and the hardware, ...).
>

to allow assignments in if statements was clearly a mistake and if you
need outside information to understand the code, your code is the
issue already.

> P.S. So far I've stayed out of this thread, as I like it if the compiler
>      flags possible mistakes.  After all I was the one fixing new
>      "may be used uninitialized" warnings thrown up by gcc-4.1, until
>      (a bit later than) support for that compiler was removed...
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>                         Geert
>
> --
> Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org
>
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