Re: [PATCH 3/4] Documentation/process: Add fallthrough pseudo-keyword

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 10:48 AM Miguel Ojeda
<miguel.ojeda.sandonis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 6:47 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > +When the C17/C18  [[fallthrough]] syntax is more commonly supported by
>
> Note that C17/C18 does not have [[fallthrough]]. C++17 introduced it,
> as it is mentioned above. I would keep the
> __attribute__((fallthrough)) -> [[fallthrough]] change you did,
> though, since that is indeed the standard syntax (given the paragraph
> references C++17).
>
> I was told by Aaron Ballman (who is proposing them for C) that it is
> more or less likely that it becomes standardized in C2x. However, it
> is still not added to the draft (other attributes are already,
> though). See N2268 and N2269:
>
>     http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2268.pdf (fallthrough)
>     http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2269.pdf
> (attributes in general)
>

Interesting. I think those links might be useful to include, or drop
the section on C++ style attributes outright. Either way:
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers