On Wed, 25 Nov 2020, Miguel Ojeda wrote: > > The C standard has nothing to do with this. We use compiler extensions > of several kinds, for many years. Even discounting those extensions, the > kernel is not even conforming to C due to e.g. strict aliasing. I am not > sure what you are trying to argue here. > I'm saying that supporting the official language spec makes more sense than attempting to support a multitude of divergent interpretations of the spec (i.e. gcc, clang, coverity etc.) I'm also saying that the reason why we use -std=gnu89 is that existing code was written in that language, not in ad hoc languages comprised of collections of extensions that change with every release. > But, since you insist: yes, the `fallthrough` attribute is in the > current C2x draft. > Thank you for checking. I found a free version that's only 6 weeks old: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2583.pdf It will be interesting to see whether 6.7.11.5 changes once the various implementations reach agreement. _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
