On Mon, Sep 7, 2020 at 3:45 PM Florian Weimer <f...@deneb.enyo.de> wrote: > > * Bruce Korb via Gcc: > > > I don't write a lot of code anymore, but this sure seems like a > > gratuitous irritation to me. I've been using > > > > // FALLTHRU and > > // FALLTHROUGH > > > > for *DECADES*, so it's pretty incomprehensible why the compiler should > > have to invalidate my code because it thinks a different coding > > comment is better. > > It's not clear what you are talking about. > > Presumably you placed the comment before a closing brace, and not > immediately before the subsequent case label?
Nope. I had /* FALLTHROUGH */ on the line before a blank line before the case label. After Googling, I found an explicit reference that you had to spell it: // fall through I did that, and it worked. So I'm moving on, but still ...