On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 10:10:23AM -0600, Jeff Law wrote: > On 07/11/2016 01:43 PM, Marek Polacek wrote: > > The switch fallthrough has been widely considered a design defect in C, a > > misfeature or, to use Marshall Cline's definition, evil. The overwhelming > > majority of the time you don't want to fall through to the next case, but > > it is > > easy to forget to "break" at the end of the case, making this far too error > > prone. Yet GCC (and probably other compilers, too) doesn't have the > > ability to > > warn in this case. A feature request for such warning was opened back in > > 2002, > > but it's mostly been untouched since. But then the [[fallthrough]] > > attribute was > > approved for C++17 [1], and that's what has got me to do all this. > [ ... ] > This is going to be rather contentious. So as we're hashing through that, > can you split off the patches which fix bugs rather than those which add > fallthru annotations?
To (belatedly) answer this, I posted <https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2016-07/msg01880.html> to address this. Marek
