[SLOF] [PATCH] libc: Add missing fallthrough annotation
Segher Boessenkool
segher at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Jan 26 05:23:02 AEDT 2021
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 08:01:43AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 24/01/2021 09.57, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >>With new versions of GCC, they often added "experimental"
> >>warnings with -Wextra which were just wrong in many cases.
> >
> >Like? I don't remember any noisy warnings added to -Wextra in the last
> >few years.
>
> It's been quite a while since I made that experience, so I can't remember
> the details (it was likely in the days of GCC 3.x or the early 4.x
> versions,
Ah, 15..20 years ago :-)
> maybe the first incarnation of -Wempty-body or so) and I've been
> avoiding -Wextra since that point in time. Well, maybe it got better in
> recent years and I should give it a try again...
I'm interested in hearing the results!
My main advice is if you do not like some warnings to disable *those*,
instead of only enabling the few you found out you like. Secondly, if
some warning is annoying, there probably is a good reason it is in -W
nonetheless!
Segher
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