Re: [RFC PATCH] compiler_attributes.h: Add 'fallthrough' pseudo keyword for switch/case use

From: hpa
Date: Thu Aug 01 2019 - 02:11:47 EST


On July 31, 2019 4:55:47 PM PDT, Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 11:01 PM <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> The standard is moving toward adding this as an attribute with the
>[[fallthrough]] syntax; it is in C++17, not sure when it will be in C
>be if it isn't already.
>
>Not yet, but it seems to be coming:
>
> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2268.pdf
>
>However, even if C2x gets it, it will be quite a while until the GCC
>minimum version gets bumped up to that, so...
>
>Cheers,
>Miguel

The point was that we should plan ahead in whatever we end up doing.
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