On Tue, 2017-11-28 at 11:10 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 11:00 AM, Alan Cox <gno...@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > > > > The notation in question has been standard in tools like lint since the > > end of the 1970s > > Yes. > > That said, maybe one option would be to annotate the "case:" and > "default:" statements if that makes people happier. > > IOW, we could do something like > > #define fallthrough __atttibute__((fallthrough)) > > and then write > > fallthrough case 1: > ... > > which while absolutely not traditional, might look and read a bit more > logical to people. I mean, it literally _is_ a "fallthrough case", so > it makes semantic sense. > > Or maybe people hate that kind of "making up new syntax" too?
I don't https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/2/10/485
