On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 08:06:05PM -0700, Joe Perches 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]] > > if the compiler supports that notation >
That patch as it stands will work with D64838, as it is adding support for the GNU fallthrough attribute. However, I assume that all of the /* fall through */ comments will need to be converted to the attribute macro, was that going to be done with Coccinelle or something else?
