http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7652
--- Comment #28 from Alexander Kornienko <alexfh at google dot com> --- (In reply to Jonathan Wakely from comment #24) > (In reply to Matthew Woehlke from comment #22) > > [[gcc:fallthrough]] // suppress warning for fall-through to 'case C' > > N.B. the attribute-namespace for GNU extensions is "gnu" And also the attribute must be attached to a declaration or a statement. In Clang, the [[clang::fallthrough]] attribute is attached to an empty statement ';', so the syntax actually is: switch (x) { case 1: ... [[clang::fallthrough]]; // <- note the semicolon case 2: ...