Re: [PATCH 0/2] Compiler Attributes: __fallthrough

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 2:48 AM Miguel Ojeda
<miguel.ojeda.sandonis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 8:29 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Will this work with all of the static tools that are currently looking
> > for the comment instead?  I know coverity handles that, what about
> > others?
>
> I will also contact the different tools about this.

Let's contact the authors of these tools if they don't parse the
attribute.  I prefer to have the attributes rather than specifically
formatted comments.

I do think this may be tricky to provide backwards support for though;
Miguel, do you have info on which versions of GCC support comments vs
attribute?
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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers