Re: [PATCH] x86/syscalls: Mark expected switch fall-throughs

[Alan Cox]

> I have no idea who came up with that brilliant idea of parsing comments in
> the code. It's so simple to make this parser completely fail that it's not

Stephen Johnson (author of the V7 portable C compiler), which is where
it's from (the lint tool). He also wrote yacc so he does know a bit about
parsers 8).

> even funny anymore.

The notation in question has been standard in tools like lint since the
end of the 1970s

Alan