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Date:   Mon, 22 Oct 2018 23:23:45 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Compiler Attributes: __fallthrough
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On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 6:54 PM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 2:48 AM Miguel Ojeda
> <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 8:29 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Will this work with all of the static tools that are currently looking
> > > for the comment instead?  I know coverity handles that, what about
> > > others?
> >
> > I will also contact the different tools about this.
>
> Let's contact the authors of these tools if they don't parse the
> attribute.  I prefer to have the attributes rather than specifically
> formatted comments.

Sorry, not sure what you mean -- isn't that what I said? Greg was
asking whether tools would support the attribute equally well compared
to the comment parsing; not the comments.

>
> I do think this may be tricky to provide backwards support for though;
> Miguel, do you have info on which versions of GCC support comments vs
> attribute?

It is in the commit message:

    """
    In C mode, GCC supports the __fallthrough__ attribute since 7.1,
    the same time the warning and the comment parsing were introduced.
    """

Cheers,
Miguel