Source: gcc-7 Version: 7-20170407-1 Severity: normal $ gcc-7 -Wextra -o foo foo.c foo.c: In function 'main': foo.c:6:9: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=] argc = 0; ~~~~~^~~~ foo.c:9:3: note: here default: ^~~~~~~ $ cat foo.c int main(int argc, char **argv) { switch (argc) { case 1: { argc = 0; //fallthrough } default: argc = 1; break; }
return 0; } Removing the braces for "case 1:" removes the warning. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)