Re: [PATCH] Build: Scripts/Makefile: Remove Repeated Lines

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Thu Feb 15 2018 - 00:25:11 EST


On 02/14/2018 09:05 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Progyan,
>
> On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 09:50:03 +0530 Progyan Bhattacharya <bprogyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>
>> PS: I have another question, Is use of range expression within case
>> statements allowed in Kernel? If not, are we using If-Else ladder for that?
>
> I am not sure if we have a policy on ranges in case labels, but it is
> not standard C (well, C11 at least). If-else ladders are certainly
> common.

I found 964 case ranges in 4.16-rc1.

or you use something like:

switch (val) {
case 5:
case 10:
case 15:
// handle multiples of 5:
break;
default:
}



--
~Randy