Add a die(...) to a default case for the switch statement selecting between grep pattern types under --recurse-submodules. Normally this would be caught by -Wswitch, but the grep_pattern_type type is converted to int by going through parse_options(). Changing the argument type passed to compile_submodule_options() won't work, the value will just get coerced. Thus catching this at runtime is the least worst option. This won't ever trigger in practice, but if a new pattern type were to be added this catches an otherwise silent bug during development. See commit 0281e487fd ("grep: optionally recurse into submodules", 2016-12-16) for the initial addition of this code. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/grep.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/builtin/grep.c b/builtin/grep.c index 3ffb5b4e81..1c0adb30f3 100644 --- a/builtin/grep.c +++ b/builtin/grep.c @@ -495,6 +495,12 @@ static void compile_submodule_options(const struct grep_opt *opt, break; case GREP_PATTERN_TYPE_UNSPECIFIED: break; + default: + /* + * -Wswitch doesn't catch this due to casting & + * -Wswitch-default is too noisy. + */ + die("BUG: Added a new grep pattern type without updating switch statement"); } for (pattern = opt->pattern_list; pattern != NULL; -- 2.11.0