On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 10:53:44AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 12:21:39 -0600 Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote: > > This series aims to fix almost all remaining fall-through warnings in > > order to enable -Wimplicit-fallthrough for Clang. > > > > In preparation to enable -Wimplicit-fallthrough for Clang, explicitly > > add multiple break/goto/return/fallthrough statements instead of just > > letting the code fall through to the next case. > > > > Notice that in order to enable -Wimplicit-fallthrough for Clang, this > > change[1] is meant to be reverted at some point. So, this patch helps > > to move in that direction. > > > > Something important to mention is that there is currently a discrepancy > > between GCC and Clang when dealing with switch fall-through to empty case > > statements or to cases that only contain a break/continue/return > > statement[2][3][4]. > > Are we sure we want to make this change? Was it discussed before? > > Are there any bugs Clangs puritanical definition of fallthrough helped > find? > > IMVHO compiler warnings are supposed to warn about issues that could > be bugs. Falling through to default: break; can hardly be a bug?! It's certainly a place where the intent is not always clear. I think this makes all the cases unambiguous, and doesn't impact the machine code, since the compiler will happily optimize away any behavioral redundancy. -- Kees Cook
