On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 11:54 PM Finn Thain <fthain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > We should also take into account optimisim about future improvements in > tooling. Not sure what you mean here. There is no reliable way to guess what the intention was with a missing fallthrough, even if you parsed whitespace and indentation. > It is if you want to spin it that way. How is that a "spin"? It is a fact that we won't get *implicit* fallthrough mistakes anymore (in particular if we make it a hard error). > But what we inevitably get is changes like this: > > case 3: > this(); > + break; > case 4: > hmmm(); > > Why? Mainly to silence the compiler. Also because the patch author argued > successfully that they had found a theoretical bug, often in mature code. If someone changes control flow, that is on them. Every kernel developer knows what `break` does. > But is anyone keeping score of the regressions? If unreported bugs count, > what about unreported regressions? Introducing `fallthrough` does not change semantics. If you are really keen, you can always compare the objects because the generated code shouldn't change. Cheers, Miguel
