On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 10:48:50AM -0400, Jason Merrill wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Michael Matz <m...@suse.de> wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Sep 2016, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> >
> >> Just compare that to the number of real bugs the warning found in gcc
> >> codebase. It is really worth it for -Wextra.
> >
> > All those bugs would also have been found as well when it had simply
> > accepted
> > /fall.*thr/i
> > anywhere in the preceding comment on one line. But all the recent
> > spelling changes of comments to cater for the strictness exactly shows how
> > misguided that is. The above would accept "Don't fall through" as well.
> > I say: so what?
>
> I agree.
All right, I'm not opposed to making the comment parsing more benevolent.
We still should have enough time to fine-tune it.
Marek
