Re: [PATCH] Makefile: Convert -Wimplicit-fallthrough=3 to just -Wimplicit-fallthrough for clang

[Miguel Ojeda]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 6:29 PM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 8:06 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 2019-08-10 at 19:04 -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > > On a tangential note, how are you planning on doing the fallthrough
> > > comment to attribute conversion? The reason I ask is clang does not
> > > support the comment annotations, meaning that when Nathan Huckleberry's
> > > patch is applied to clang (which has been accepted [1]), we are going
> > > to get slammed by the warnings. I just ran an x86 defconfig build at
> > > 296d05cb0d3c with his patch applied and I see 27673 instances of this
> > > warning... (mostly coming from some header files so nothing crazy but it
> > > will be super noisy).
> > >
> > > If you have something to share like a script or patch, I'd be happy to
> > > test it locally.
> > >
> > > [1]: https://reviews.llvm.org/D64838
> >
> > Something like this patch:
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1108577/
> >
> > Maybe use:
> >
> > #define fallthrough [[fallthrough]]
>
> Isn't [[fallthrough]] the C++ style attribute?  **eek** Seems to be a

It is going to be very likely also the C spelling too, i.e. C2x will
likely be released with attributes. [[fallthrough]] in particular is
still on discussion but it may be included too (thanks Aaron!).

> waste for Clang to implement __attribute__((fallthrough)) just as we
> switch the kernel to not use it.  Also, I'd recommend making the
> preprocessor define all caps to help folks recognize it's a
> preprocessor define.

Hm... I would go for either __fallthrough as the rest of attributes,
or simply fallthrough -- FALLTHROUGH seems wrong. If you want it that
way for visibility, then I would choose __fallthrough, since the
underscores are quite prominent and anyway IDEs typically highlight
macros in a different color than keywords (return etc.).

Cheers,
Miguel