On 2016.09.27 at 10:46 +0200, Eric Botcazou wrote: > > The intent has been that we catch the most common forms, but still require > > it not to be complete free form. Because, as experience shows, people are > > extremely creative in these comments, and it is not very good idea to > > support everything. For ... fall through ... , what is the purpose of > > those ...s? > > No idea, but it has been there for a while and seems perfectly reasonable. > IMO any sentence containing "fall" and "through/thru/etc" on the same line > should be accepted, otherwise it's just misplaced pickiness.
+1. Folks will just disable the warning if gcc is not very permissive when paring existing comments. You cannot expect anyone to change perfectly fine fall-through comments just to accommodate an arbitrary gcc style. -- Markus
