On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 09:35:31AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-07-31 at 08:16 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 04:32:43AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2019-07-31 at 07:19 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 10:04:37PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > > fallthrough may become a pseudo reserved keyword so this only use of
> > > > > fallthrough is better renamed to allow it.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <j...@perches.com>
> > > > Are you referring to the __attribute__((fallthrough)) statement that gcc
> > > > supports?  If so the compiler should by all rights be able to 
> > > > differentiate
> > > > between a null statement attribute and a explicit goto and label 
> > > > without the
> > > > need for renaming here.  Or are you referring to something else?
> > > 
> > > Hi.
> > > 
> > > I sent after this a patch that adds
> > > 
> > > # define fallthrough                    __attribute__((__fallthrough__))
> > > 
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1108577/
> > > 
> > > So this rename is a prerequisite to adding this #define.
> > > 
> > why not just define __fallthrough instead, like we do for all the other
> > attributes we alias (i.e. __read_mostly, __protected_by, __unused, 
> > __exception,
> > etc)
> 
> Because it's not as intelligible when used as a statement.
I think thats somewhat debatable.  __fallthrough to me looks like an internal
macro, whereas fallthrough looks like a comment someone forgot to /* */

Neil

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