Re: Intel PT decoder switch case fallthrough cases reported by gcc 7

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Thu Feb 09 2017 - 14:11:15 EST


Em Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 10:25:19AM -0800, Andi Kleen escreveu:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 01:50:39PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've updated the container with Fedora Rawhide I use to build
> > tools/perf/ and samples/bcc/ and it now comes with gcc 7, where I get
> > things like:
>
> FWIW, but it just shows that you should never ship software with -Werror
> enabled. New compiler releases add new warnings, and you just randomly
> break the build for users who use newer compilers.
>
> It's ok to use in your own builds, but should never be default.
>
> The kernel gets it right, but perf is wrong here.

But what about my question? Do you think the changes are ok? I actually
made all be fallthrough, i.e. considered that the existing code was ok.

- Arnaldo